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The Jazz Arts Group and PNC Arts Alive are proud to present the rebroadcast of “Jazz & the Struggle for Freedom,” a concert with conversation featuring Columbus Jazz Orchestra Artistic Director Byron Stripling and Michelle Alexander, legal scholar, award-winning New York Times opinion writer, and best-selling author of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” Thursday, June 18 – Sunday, July 4, 2021, exclusively on JAG TV.
The FREE event is presented by PNC Arts Alive and the Jazz Arts Group.
Michelle Alexander speaks with Byron Stripling on issues related to race, diversity, civil liberties, and mass incarceration with Stripling and the ensemble adding musical counterpoint through jazz, blues, R&B and gospel styles.
Michelle Alexander Bio
Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar and author of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” — the best-selling book helped transform the national debate on racial and criminal justice in the United States. Since “The New Jim Crow…” was first published in 2010, it has spent nearly 250 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, been cited in judicial decisions, adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads, and has inspired a generation of racial justice activists motivated by Alexander’s unforgettable argument that “we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.” The book won numerous awards, including the 2011 NAACP Image Award for best nonfiction. Alexander has been featured on national radio and television media outlets including MSNBC, NPR, CNN, Bill Moyers Journal, The Colbert Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, Tavis Smiley, Democracy Now!, and C-SPAN. Click here to learn more about Michelle Alexander and “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.”
Timely and thought-provoking, “Jazz & the Struggle for Freedom” focuses attention on issues of race, diversity, civil liberties, and mass incarceration, and features musical interludes throughout that add melodic counterpoint through jazz, blues, R&B and gospel styles.
In addition to Byron Stripling and Michelle Alexander, “Jazz & the Struggle for Freedom” features Bobby Floyd (piano), Reggie Jackson (drums), Sydney McSweeney (vocals), Dr. Milton Ruffin (vocals/guitar), Kevin Turner (guitar) and Andy Woodson (bass).
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