Long Time Coming: A Reckoning

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By Michael Eric Dyson *93

Published May 17, 2021

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020, the United States underwent a reckoning over systemic racism and saw the largest protests in the nation’s history. In Long Time Coming, Dyson traces the genealogy of anti-blackness that led to this crucial moment and sparked a new movement for change.

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