American Dreaming at the Beginning of the United States
Reviewers of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me have commented on the tension in his memoir between skepticism and
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When Cops Kill the Terrorists Win
On June 15, 1969 the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, famously declared that the
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“Concede Nothing” – How to Remember a Storm Ten Years Later
This year marked ten years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall. To say New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast would
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Fighting for Freedom: Free Women of African Descent in New Orleans and Beyond
Delivered at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival on Saturday, March 28, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the panel
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