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Gabor Maté: How Capitalism Makes Us Sick: An Interview on Health and Politics

By Ryan Meili — 2014

Doctor Gabor Maté is the award-winning author of the books When the Body Says No, Hold On To Your Kids, and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. He was recently invited to speak at a conference of the Saskatoon Tribal Council, which includes seven Saskatchewan First Nations. I took the opportunity to interview Dr. Maté about his writing and the intersection between health and politics.

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We Need to Talk about an Injustice | Bryan Stevenson

In an engaging and personal talk—with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks—human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country’s black male population has been...

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2012
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How America’s Justice System Is Rigged Against the Poor

There are invisible cages that extend far beyond prison walls. Every year, more than 600,000 individuals are freed from America’s jails and prisons.

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2017
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Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond

In this “thought-provoking and important” (Library Journal) analysis of state-sanctioned violence, Marc Lamont Hill carefully considers a string of high-profile deaths in America—Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, and others—and incidents of gross negligence...

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Marc Lamont Hill
2017
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color.

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James Forman Jr.
2018
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow.

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Michelle Alexander, Cornel West (foreword)
2020
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We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

“Organizing is both science and art.

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Mariame Kaba
2021
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I Remember Death By Its Proximity to What I Love

Mahogany L. Browne’s evocative book-length poem explores the impacts of the prison system on both the incarcerated and the loved ones left behind. I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love is an expansive poetic meditation on who we think is bound by incarceration. The answer: all of us.

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Mahogany L. Browne
2025
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Policing, Mass Incarceration and Community Trauma

The impact of systemic racism in the U.S. legal system on affected communities.

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2017
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Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair

In a book Democracy Now! calls a “complete overhaul of the way we’ve been taught to think about crime, punishment, and justice,” Danielle Sered, the executive director of Common Justice and renowned expert on violence, offers pragmatic solutions that take the place of prison, meeting the...

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Danielle Sered
2025
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Racial Inequality in the Criminal Justice System

In this 2010 video, Prof. Daniel D'Amico argues that one of the reasons why minorities are grossly overrepresented in U.S. prisons may lie with the criminal justice system itself. Laws about drug prohibition, for example, are supposed to be color blind.

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2020
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Poverty and Economic Inequality