Jimmy Carter Was the First Politician to Listen to Black Folks, Photos Showing How Black Folks Got Down With Carter, Black Twitter Reacts to Jimmy Carter's Death and Other News About Jimmy Carter
A few years ago, I spoke with civil rights icon Andrew Young and in my conversation, I asked him about being appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. He told me that his international perspective came from the people from the Black diaspora that he met through the Black church.
It was a perspective he was able…