Book Review: Michael Eric Dyson And “Official And Safe Lines Of Thought”

What Truth Sounds Like: RFK, James Baldwin and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America.Michael Eric Dyson.St. Martin’s Press, 294 pp. $24.99. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs This review admittedly asks an unfair question: If Michael Eric Dyson had written the 1961 film version of “A Raisin in the Sun” instead of the play’s creator,…

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Harry Belafonte and Jay-Z: Political or Generational Beef?

Preceding our recent discussion about about the new movie about Oscar Grant, Fruitvale Station, we spoke with Rahiel Tesfamariam of the Washington Post and Dr. Lester Spence of Johns Hopkins University about the recent exchange between Harry Belafonte and Jay-Z.  Is this disagreement generational or political?

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