Tag: Notes of a Native Son
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What makes a man like Muhammad Ali?
In his essay, Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin wrote about a chronic disease he contracted as a young black professional after being refused service at a New Jersey diner. Hearing the racist rationale that, “we don’t serve Negroes here,” Baldwin was overcome with: “a kind of blind fever, a pounding in the skull…
Teri McDowell Ott 