Sublime

But he was about to become—beginning in that summer of 1957—the greatest champion that the liberal senators, and Margaret Frost and the millions of other black Americans, had had since, almost a century before, there had been a President named Lincoln.

In Atlanta, a few months after my visit with Walter, I would go to a Bearden exhibition at the High Museum. The pieces depicted his youth in Charlotte, North Carolina, before his family moved north. There was also a video installation showing in the center of the exhibition room. Albert Murray sits alongside Bearden in much of it. They talk about h

James Baldwin, Malcolm X.

most explicitly political, referencing the racial strife of the time. This move on the part of Coltrane and the force of its appeal among young black intellectuals, writers, and artists was less the expression of a whimsical adventure of happenstance or misdirection than the articulation of a very powerful yearning for black expression and dialogue

What the White South confronted in the movement era was a paradigm shift. There was a model for sustaining White supremacy: terrorizing Black folks, the dispassionate acquiescence of the White North and the federal government, economic control, and an ideological hold on its ranks managed by humiliation and cruelty. But a model only holds as long a

To fight for mental and moral changes after policy is changed means fighting alongside growing benefits and