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March 23, 2015
Langston Hughes and Touré on Loving Blackness in a Nation Ruled by White Supremacy
The Black artist still must confront the choice between being a messenger about the community and being a pure maker of artistic product.
Langston Hughes and Touré
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March 23, 2015
The Reporter Who Warned Us Not to Invade Vietnam 10 Years Before the Gulf of Tonkin
A farsighted policy might do more to stem the Communist tide than sending a few more plane-loads of napalm.
Bernard Fall and Frances FitzGerald
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March 23, 2015
When Respectability Was No Longer Respectable, and Virtue Required Acting Out, Not Leaning In
Spelman College girls are still “nice,” but not enough to keep them from walking up and down, carrying picket signs, in front of supermarkets in the heart of Atlanta.
Howard Zinn and Paula J. Giddings
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March 23, 2015
The Gospel According to Wendell Berry
To destroy a forest is an act of greater seriousness than we have yet grasped. But to destroy the earth itself is to destroy the possibility of recovery.
Wendell Berry and Wen Stephenson
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March 23, 2015
A Report From Occupied Territory
The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer.
James Baldwin and Carrie Mae Weems
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February 10, 2015
From ‘Victim’ to ‘Threat’: James Baldwin and the Demands of Self-Respect
Baldwin yielded to nobody in his quest to weed racism out of the American garden—root and branch.
Mychal Denzel Smith