Marc Lamont Hill: What It Means To Be A 'Nobody'

August marks two years since a police officer shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Inequalities in our criminal justice system have dominated headlines since then. But Marc Lamont Hill says the injustice goes beyond police policies and prison sentences. He says there is a war on the powerless in this country. 

Marc Lamont Hill is a Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Morehouse College and author of the new book, “Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond.” We speak with Hill about the book and the war waged on what he calls the “nobody” class.