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\u201cIs the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?\u201d 55 years after James Baldwin\u2019s historic Cambridge address, the issue still remains. We ask: can racism ever become a thing of the past?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIs the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?\u201d 55 years after James Baldwin\u2019s historic Cambridge address, the issue still remains. 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