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The words of race, those words don’t belong to me.  They were not picked out specifically for me and I certainly did not ask for them by name.  I did not ask to be called by or addressed as black.  I would never introduce myself as such as this is not how I want to […]

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“Breaking the Rules of Blackness”: Toure’s Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?

In this video clip, Toure reads from his latest book Who’s Afraid of Post- Blackness: How to be Black Now. He shares with listeners quite poetically his experience of sky- diving and how a comment from a couple of middle- aged African American men: “Brother, black people don’t do that” could have prevented him from drawing […]

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