![]() ![]() Holding on is a commonplace of people without a great deal of luxury, for whom disaster is a commonplace. ![]() I was selected to speak for the people of Birmingham in our declaration of love for Angela Davis, a defiant reaction to this humiliation, a beautiful and thick love from a socially conservative but deeply self-protective Black community. She had recently been awarded a human rights award by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, and then had it rescinded for her leftist politics. In February of 2019, I was called back to Alabama to interview Angela Davis, another daughter of Birmingham. I went back to Birmingham four times in 2019. ’00, will join Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences in July. Excerpted from Imani Perry’s “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation,” winner of a 2022 National Book Award. ![]()
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