The Black Artists Leaving America (Published 2021)

representative of black freedom.

The generations of freedom fighters in the Black Belt continue their work. And in Mississippi, they have made it the state with the most extensive Black political representation in America. It is the closest we have to a realization of full Black political citizenship. And it is the only state with a scion of Black nationalism as the executive of i

It is worth mentioning for the purposes of this book that most of the Black revolutionaries from the 1960s who fled to Cuba were from the Deep South. William Lee Brent, from Louisiana; Eldridge Cleaver, originally from Arkansas; Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, from Chattanooga; Huey P. Newton, originally from Monroe, Louisiana; Robert F. Williams, from Monr

The way private enterprise took over the grounds of public housing and Black life in New Orleans is consistent with the norms of late capitalism in the United States. Everything is subject to markets. Folkways have little power without capital. But there is a particularly sharp way gentrification cuts in the South, a region built by the people who