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How Spike Lee and a mighty tradition saved me

How Spike Lee and a mighty tradition saved me

[html]Growing up in Brooklyn and Queens in the 1980s, I was saved by the study of Black history. It helped me to make sense of the police shootings of Black people, the segregated schools I attended and the all-Black neighborhoods that I lived in. Beginning in childhood, my mother became my history teacher and intellectual raconteur.[/html]

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