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Last Gasp: The Sunday night reader for 6/27/21

Last Gasp: The Sunday night reader for 6/27/21

Baldwin's 'Fixed star,' the UWMA in Alabama, and Tayari Jones

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Jun 27, 2021
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‘Fixed star’

Look at these photos from recent school board protests in Virginia, and then consider this quote from James Baldwin in The Fire Next Time: “Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the univer…

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