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How Thomas Chatterton Williams Gets Race Right

I. Last week, author and essayist Thomas Chatterton Williams wrote a full-scale assault of fellow writer and author Ta-Nehesi Coates in an New York Times op-ed entitled “How Ta-Nehesi Coates Gives Whiteness Power.” He makes the case as to why this country’s devotion to race as a construct will continue to perpetuate the deep divisions […]

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If Ta-Nehesi Coates and Kendrick Lamar Had a Conversation…

  This has been an interesting moment in time for blackness.  The imperfect harmony of the nightmare that police brutality against black bodies along with the exoneration of whiteness and the beauty of black pride and some semblance of existential unity hearkening to years past.  Two hallmarks of this time period have been both Kendrick Lamar […]

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