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paradox of identity that Du Bois had made famous among Negro intellectuals more than forty years earlier: “One ever feels his twoness, an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings…”
Taylor Branch • Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
the Dreamers are quoting Martin Luther King and exulting nonviolence for the weak and the biggest guns for the strong.
Ta-Nehisi Coates • Between the World and Me
George Dillard
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The Obamas Strike Back — The Ezra Klein Show
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Denmark Vesey, one of the South Carolina’s most significant enslaved insurrectionists, was once a member of Mother Emanuel. It had been founded in 1816. City leaders forced them to close their doors in 1818. Too much freedom happened there. And after Vesey’s revolt, the building was burned to the ground in 1822, only to be rebuilt. The parishioners
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
