Michelle Alexander
Civil rights lawyer and legal scholar known for authoring The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness; scholar-in-residence at Union Theological Seminary and founder of Spirit of Justice.
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May 7, 2026 • 1h 17min
“The Fierce Urgency of Now” — Michelle Alexander and Lucas Johnson
Lucas Johnson, organizer and public theologian reviving democratic and spiritual traditions. Michelle Alexander, civil rights lawyer and author of The New Jim Crow. They reflect on Vincent Harding’s influence, the prophetic urgency of King’s 1967 speech, linking racial justice to global solidarity, nonviolence as active spiritual practice, and the work of building beloved community through music, truth-telling, and spiritual formation.
