Omari Weekes News Today

In Ordinary Notes, Sharpe considers Black culture “in all of its shade and depth and glow.”

Omari Weekes is an assistant professor of English at Queens College, CUNY.

For better or worse, dead people do rule. They rule because we love them, and they rule because, like many people over 65 today, they were late to retire and reluctant to surrender their reign.

A conversation with the historian about the 20th-anniversary of his seminal book Freedom Dreams, how the meaning of freedom has changed in the intervening years, the reparations debate, and more.

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