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The money they saved arrived back in India through the imperial postal system. Letters carried promises of families reuniting and making America their home. But the California Alien Land Law of 1913 prohibited immigrants from buying land. A 1920 report from the California State Board of Control des…

His plan was to forget the past and move on - no lustration, no looking for scapegoats

The peculiar condition of being ceaselessly co-opted for another’s profit could arguably point to an impasse, to despair. But here’s the counter: the force of our vernacular culture formed under slavery is the connection born principally in music, but also in the Word, in all of its manifold uses, …

Could we begin our conversation over again, at a tabula rasa of black creative freedom

The boundaries he pushes are only partly for our benefit; his chameleon love affair with the frisson of the louche