Brenda Rae

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“Memory is powerful, it is a powerful force in the way a society evolves,” Stevenson said in his documentary True Justice. We have a constitution that talks about equality, liberty, and justice for all and for decades, for centuries we tolerated enslavement of other human beings. We tolerated abuse and violence against people. We tolerated bigotry and discrimination….I think there is a kind of smog in the air that’s created by the history of slavery and lynching and segregation, and I don’t think we’re going to get healthy, I don’t think we can be free…until we address this problem. But to get ...more
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
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