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Imagination Capture
Steve Scalise, the congressman from Louisiana and former Republican Majority Whip, recently said that “the Bolshevik takeover of the Democratic Party is…
Jul 27
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A Lynching in Creoletown
In the old cemetery of the Black Catholic Church in Pascagoula, Mississippi, the church in which I was raised, lies the unmarked grave of a man who was…
Jul 20
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Earned Skepticism
I have been thinking a lot lately about the death of Nolan Wells.
Jul 13
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Eddie
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The Color Question
Many Americans often turn to Frederick Douglass’s July 5, 1852 speech on the occasion of July 4th. This 250th anniversary has been no different.
Jul 6
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Megyn Kelly and the Rising Tide of Color
I have been processing the Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding TPS and its implications for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and others in this…
Jun 29
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Love you, Dad
I first read James Baldwin seriously in graduate school.
Jun 22
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Eddie
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The Power of Subversive Joy
When I was a young graduate student in the Religion department at Princeton University, Cornel West drew this distinction between happiness and joy.
Jun 15
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Bitterness at the Bottom of the Cup
I am still on my book tour for America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries.
Jun 8
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A Rememory: Ralph Yarl and America, U.S.A.
The young man walks quickly by himself through a neighborhood that sleeps.
Jun 1
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“On this Memorial Day: A Different Story”
Americans take shelter in stories that secure our virtue and innocence, particularly in this 250th year of the nation.
May 25
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Vote For Us!
So much has changed, and in a blink of an eye.
May 18
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Eddie
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James Baldwin, “In Search of a Majority: An Address” (1960) reprinted in NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME
I think this speech is worth reading or rereading in this moment as the hoods come off and the pursuit of white power has made itself known explicitly.
May 11
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