Michelle Alexander, author of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” will be the keynote lecturer in the final portion of the Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Series presented at the Iowa State Lectures Program.

In her book, Alexander argues African-Americans have lost ground since the Civil Rights Movement due to systematic racial discrimination, resulting in devastating social consequences. 

Alexander directed the Civil Rights Clinic at Stanford Law School before accepting a joint position at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University.

The lecture will be held at 7 p.m. Jan. 29 in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. Admission is free.