Swing State

Race in America: Bakari Sellers on My Vanishing Country, his new book


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In a hard week, Bakari Sellers– the youngest-ever member of South Carolina's state legislature, CNN commentator and influential African American attorney–points this nation forward in his new book, My Vanishing Country. Another black man chokes and dies under the knee of a cop in Minnesota, white privilege and a black birdwatcher meet in Central Park and protests erupt across the country. African Americans are dying at a disproportionate rate from COVID-19, online school leaves behind African American children who don't have access to broadband, let alone clean water, the Payroll Protection Plan didn't get to many black-owned businesses because they have no bank in their neighborhood. When does this end? More honesty, more action, says Bakari Sellers, for all our sakes.
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Swing StateBy Heidi Radford Legg

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