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Stakes Been High: Mychal Denzel Smith on Life After the American Dream

Stakes Been High: Mychal Denzel Smith on Life After the American Dream Reviewed by Mark Anthony Neal | @NewBlackMan |with thanks to NewBlackMan (in Exile) Friday, December 18, 2020. When the group De La Soul released Stakes is High in 1996, it was the culmina..More

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Black Manhood and the Racist Imagination	Black Athletes and the 'War on Drugs'
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