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  • Roxane Gay Pulls Upcoming Book From Publisher Simon & Schuster Over Milo Yiannopoulos Deal 

    Roxane Gay is not here for Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos. Little surprise, since Yiannopoulos is a raging racist. So racist, in fact, he was banned from Twitter after leading an online harassment campaign against comedian and actor (and queen) Leslie Jones. Anyway, the iconic author put her money where her mouth is. Gay was all…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Discovery of Book Published by Black Woman in 1891 Shines Light on 19th-Century Novels by Black Americans

    When one thinks of 19th-century America, slavery and the Civil War come to mind. American slavery, as we know, was a heinous, painful institution characterized by terrifying acts of violence. Whether it was the systematic rape of black women, the sale of black children away from their parents, squalid living conditions or enforced hard labor, slavery was…

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    Hope Wabuke

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  • Chasing James Baldwin in Paris

    James Baldwin is directly connected to Duke Ellington and John Coltrane in my mind, thanks to the 90-minute documentary James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket. When the Paris section of the film starts, you see mid-20th-century black-and-white footage of a security guard opening huge iron gates that lead to the Eiffel Tower while Ellington…

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    Todd Steven Burroughs

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