by Teju Cole
Then the bus began driving into clouds, and between one cloud and the next we caught glimpses of the town below. It was suppertime and the town was a constellation of yellow points. Continue reading
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Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
by Peniel E. Joseph
Basic Books
Review by Reginald Harris
The subtitle of this new book by Tufts University History Professor Peniel Joseph at first seems counter intuitive, intentionally provocative—or just plain wrong: From Black Power to Barack Obama? Isn’t our first African-American President proof of the fulfillment of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s dream and a refutation Malcolm X’s vision of America as a racial nightmare? Continue reading
