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Reading Frederick Douglass Together
Last Sunday afternoon I attended a reading of Frederick Douglass’ epic speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July.” “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in … Continue reading
History as Fact—and as Gap
Within a few moments of Clint Smith’s recent Harvard Radcliffe Institute Book Talk about How the Word is Passed, I was fully won over by the man and his message. Mr. Smith is a 33-year-old poet and scholar drenched in … Continue reading
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