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This Week In Black History February 21-27, 2024

South to America shows how one region’s beauty, losses, and inequities have shaped the country as a whole.

Death has stalked our land this past year with particular fury. More than 3,000 have died from Covid-19

mhande dance and drumming of the Shona people. The man is the son of a n’anga, what suspicious Europeans once called a witch doctor. But as he explains, his father loved Manyeruke’s music, and the two men chat congenially about the points of belief they share. As they agree, how could anyone doubt that God wisely guides all things? Manyeruke is at once passionately Christian and absolutely comfortable with the cultural inheritance of that traditional world. His own father performed the mh...

I attended North Carolina Boys State at Wake Forest University in the summer of 1991. My Harvard-bound roommate nominated me for mayor of our city and then for governor of the whole shebang. I became mayor but lost the primary race for governor. I was a second alternate for Boys Nation. I learned a lot that summer. I learned how quickly people will pledge their support to you and how quickly they’ll forget they did any such thing. I remember counting the votes folks had promised to me and fig...