One of the privileges of running this newsletter has been the chance to spend sustained time with black writers, thinkers, and the scholars who study them. Over the past several years, I’ve reviewed classic novels, memoirs, and histories; interviewed authors and academics; and traced a thread that connects Frederick Douglass’s stolen reading lessons to …
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