Ta-Nehisi Coates first published “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration” in October of 2015. Four and a half years and an important prison reform law (the First Step Act) have passed, how much has changed? There seems to have been some improvement. Not only has the total incarceration rate dropped, but theContinue reading “Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates: An update on “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration””