I got inspired by what people were doing all across America, but there was no protest in Nashville at the time. There’s so many things that I did to try to suppress who I was and what my culture was. Brianna: That our anger is not valid, that we don’t have a reason to be angry, that we don’t have a reason to riot. You know, there is that super popular Malcolm X quote: “The most disrespected person in America is the black woman.”That’s it for this briefing. • The writer Kevin Powell discussed his New York Times essay “A Letter From Father to Child” on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Source: New York Times June 29, 2020 20:43 UTC