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Should We Forgive the Charleston Killer?
It was as if I were feeling the Charleston, S.C., massacre in my bones. I had been in the United States as a guest of the Brown University International Advanced Research Institute. I was scheduled to go back on June 21, but I insisted on going back as soon as I finished my talk on…
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Mandela’s Challenge for South Africa’s Black Intellectuals
Some years ago I initiated a research program on African identity at the Human Sciences Research Council, which is the largest government-funded social science research institution in South Africa. The highlight of the program was a series of lectures by author and playwright Wole Soyinka, professor and The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. and…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
