The Harry Belafonte Speech That Changed My Life

Charles M. Blow The New York Times
The reality seized me that I had been playing much too small as a writer, covering and commenting on society and its systems rather than truly challenging them.

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If He Hollers, Let Him Be; He's Chester B. Himes

Charles R. Larson CounterPunch
A hard look at African-American author Chester Himes, whose literary fame and financial success later in life hardly made up for the oppressive racial travails that preceded it and forced him to live much of that life abroad.
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