Sublime

What the book did at the time was to bring slavery out into the open and show it for what it was, in human terms. No writer had done that before. Slavery had been argued over in the abstract, preached against as a moral issue, its evils whispered about in polite company. But the book made people at that time feel what slavery was about.

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She pointed out to these reporters that between 30 and 50 percent of those killed by police are disabled.

Almost constantly and almost everywhere black men were being faced with this kind of duality. Whites were saying the right things, showing deep concern over injustices, expressing determination to resolve the problems of racism, but never really consulting with black people as equals.

In the case of Arthur McDuffie’s death, the officers who shattered his skull were charged with the crime. But a jury quickly returned a not guilty verdict and the city exploded on May 17 of 1980. This time 18 people died, 350 were injured, and 600 were arrested.

At the Mason-Dixon Line in Maryland, we were forced to change to a bus marked “Coloreds Only” that waited behind the Maryland House, now a popular rest stop on I-95.