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What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America

By (author) Michael Eric Dyson

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An electrifying and traumatic encounter in the sixties crystallised the fraught conflict between conscience and politics â€“ between morality and power â€“ in addressing race. In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry, psychologist Kenneth Clark, and a valiant activist, Jerome Smith. Kennedy walked away from the nearly three-hour meeting angry â€“ that the black folk assembled didnâ€™t understand politics, and that they werenâ€™t as easy to talk to as Martin Luther King. But especially that they were more interested in witness than policy. But Kennedyâ€™s anger quickly gave way to empathy, especially for Smith. â€œI guess if I were in his shoesâ€¦I might feel differently about this country.â€ Kennedy set about changing policy â€“ the meeting having transformed his thinking in fundamental ways. Every big argument about race that persists to this day got a hearing in that room. And we grapple still with the responsibility of black intellectuals and artists to bring about social change. This book exists at the tense intersection of the conflict between politics and prophecy â€“ of whether we embrace political resolution or moral redemption to fix our fractured racial landscape.

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Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics

Carlo Rovelli
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The Order of Time

Carlo Rovelli
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Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, 2017).

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The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future

Mustafa Suleyman
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