Michelle Alexander, author of the best-selling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, will become a columnist for the New York Times Opinion pages, the Times announced Thursday.

If you are unfamiliar with Charles Blow, let me speed you up: He’s never here for the fuckshit. He’s educated, informed and opinionated and isn’t willing to “play nice” during Donald Trump’s dictatorship.