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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