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“You Cannot Escape Your Country,” James Baldwin, a 1984 Interview

Can people of color, or more specifically, people in urban African-American communities, salvage anything from America? Do we now live in two Americas, in diametric opposition, too far away to bridge the enormous economic and political divide, or maybe have we always? When confronted with images of rioting in Baltimore, and the subsequent militarized police to … Continue Reading ››