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We Gon Be Alright, Part 2: Five Periods of Black Overcoming and Why History Is the Only Antidote to Despair
"We gon' be alright."
Kendrick Lamar wrote those words in 2015. In the middle of Ferguson. In the middle of Black Lives Matter. In the middle of a moment when Black people were watching themselves die on camera and the world was debating whether our lives were worth grieving.
He knew something the algorithm does not want you to remember: We have been here before. And we overcame.
Right now, the world is on fire.
Young Black men are being found dead in all-white friend groups. Black families are warning their children about being the only Black face in white spaces. The price of groceries is…
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