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The Democratic primary for a Delaware Senate seat this year is showcasing the sharp divide in the party. Incumbent Tom Carper, a pro-corporate white male centrist with a track record of anti-choice votes faces a challenge from Kerri Evelyn Harris, a Black woman and antiwar Air Force veteran with working-class roots and a transformative progressive agenda.

For Mariah Parker, recently elected county commissioner in Athens, Ga., being sworn into office on The Autobiography of Malcolm X was simply a way of accurately signaling her worldview. It’s a view that’s grounded in a specific vision of what the world could be—one in which people of color, and black people in particular, live free from the grip of racism and economic misery. Of all the volumes in the rich tradition of Black Americans’ quest for such a world, few are as deeply cherished as Malcolm’s towering 20th-century autobiography. Читать дальше...