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Negroes have always held, the lowest jobs, the most menial jobs, which are now being destroyed by automation. No remote provision has yet been made to absorb this labor surplus.
Historic debate between James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley Jr. at Cambridge University on the question: "Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?"
In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity.
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
An African American teen has an explosive relationship with his tyrannical religious fanatic stepfather in 1930s Harlem.
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