In her fiction, she questioned every social and sexual arrangement.

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How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader

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They're in great demand by the media. But will many Americans even believe what they’re saying, or accuse them of partisan bias?

His bizarre and mistaken beliefs about the past are a window into his mind—and serve his political agenda.

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The brief, shining moment of Motown—and America.