Sublime

young woman of conventional middle-class privilege and promise whose situation was such that many people tended to overlook the fact that the state’s case against the accused was not invulnerable.

journalist who asked for help insisted that I could never report on this case myself because of my relationship to a victim. My best option, she said, was to give all my information to her and her partner, the senior reporter who hit on me after dangling a work opportunity. When I told her the story about her partner’s behavior—a pattern with him,

I like that the Duke quad is named for Abele. But it can’t erase the prohibition of the architect any more than affirmative action can be an adequate compensation for all of the tobacco plantation workers dizzied in those fields, sweating in those rows, who labored for the prosperity in these grand buildings. Necessary but insufficient. And not a

But Hannah-Jones’s Project, whether she realizes it or not, sits on pseudo-intellectual clouds; its raison d’être, which is to render a substantial moral judgment on American history, is therefore hopelessly compromised.

white supremacy,

it referred to what the piece defined as tastelessness marked by "a contrast of luxury and squalor."$9

The rest of the time, I hung in purgatory, playing talent shows and showcases here and there, living like a normal teenager in Philadelphia. Or maybe I should say living like a normal black teenager, which meant that aimlessness was accompanied by a certain unique set of risks. One night, I was out driving with a few friends of mine when the police