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    • Nell Irvin Painter’s Chronicles of Freedom

      Nell Irvin Painter’s Chronicles of Freedom

      The Nation· 12 hours ago

      On May Day in 1933 in Birmingham, Alabama—a state that then had an unemployment rate of 25 percent—an unemployed committee held a mass meeting of Black...

    • ‘A Long-Tongue Saga’ | Christopher Byrd

      ‘A Long-Tongue Saga’ | Christopher Byrd

      New York Review of Books· 5 days ago

      Although Forrest was praised by Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Stanley Crouch, and Toni Morrison (who edited his first three novels for Random House), his...

    • Even the banning of books is bigger in Texas

      Even the banning of books is bigger in Texas

      San Antonio Express-News· 1 day ago

      When I was young, my parents and I would make weekly trips to the Carnegie Library in Dodge City, Kan. The library, one of the 1,679 public libraries...