Listen 🎧: "Racism and Fascism" by Toni Morrison

Please also read Barbara Jordan's "Erosion of Civil Liberties"

In this special newsletter edition, I read Toni Morrison’s essay “Racism and Fascism,” which can be found in The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations. Listen to the audio above.

I want you also to read the late Barbara Jordan’s 1974 Commencement Speech at Howard University entitled “Erosion of Civil Liberties”

Here is an excerpt:

If one thing is clear about the erosion of civil liberties, it is that there is no clear line between freedom and repression. Freedom is the fluid, intangible condition of our society. It thrives in some periods and it is beset in other periods. The events of the past few years and even the past few days have convinced us that it is possible for this country to stand on the edge of repression and tyranny and never know it.

Currently Reading Barbara Jordan: American Hero by Mary Beth Rogers

with care,

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