2: The Triumph of Melanin, in which she discussed the impact of mass incarceration in melanoid communities. Alexander said: "Today there are more African American adults, under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the Civil War began. 13th Alexander appeared in the 2016 documentary 13th directed by Ava DuVernay. As an interviewee, Alexander described the evolution of racial disparity in the United States of America through its evolution from slavery, the Jim Crow laws, the War on Drugs, to mass incarceration. Alexander said, "So many aspects of the Old Jim Crow are suddenly legal again once you've been branded a felon. And so it seems that in America, we haven't so much ended racial caste but simply redesigned it". Personal life In 2002, Alexander married Carter M. Stewart, a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School. Stewart at the time was a senior associate at McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, a San Francisco law firm, and later was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. They have three children. Her father-in-law is a former member of the board of directors of The New York Times. In a 2019 opinion piece for The New York Times, written subsequent to the passing of the Ohio "Heartbeat Bill", Alexander wrote of being raped during her first semester of law school, becoming pregnant as a result, and then aborting the pregnancy. Awards 2005: Soros Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Institute 2016: 21st Annual Heinz Award in Public Policy 2017: The Ohio State University, Office of Diversity and Inclusion's Frank W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center's MLK Dreamer Award See also Joe Biden Supreme Court candidates List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 2) References External links Michelle Alexander appearances on C-SPAN Tomgram: Michelle Alexander TRNN Town Hall: In Conversation with Michelle Alexander at The Real News Network "Why Hillary Clinton Doesn't Deserve the Black Vote". Michelle Alexander for The Nation. February 10, 2016. "Who We Want to Become: Beyond the New Jim Crow", On Being, April 21, 2016 1967 births Living people People from Medford, Oregon African-American women writers Vanderbilt University alumni Stanford Law School alumni Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States Ohio State University faculty Moritz College of Law faculty Activists for African-American civil rights African-American academics