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November 11, 2014
"We've had now three generations of young people that have been wasted."
Cornel West’s View From Ferguson
The orator, activist and scholar Cornel West is summoning brave voices of black leadership from our past in his new book, Black Prophetic Fire.
I asked him if he wanted us to see Birmingham in 1963 in the protests that got him arrested in Ferguson, Missouri this fall — after the long and troubled investigation of the killing of the black teenager Michael Brown by a police officer — and whether at a time when our politics feels less relevant and more strained than ever, his might be a voice that people need, if only to answer to the Sean Hannitys of the world.
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