#5: A New Story for Black Americans
Charles Johnson questions the stories we tell ourselves about black America, eight years after President Obama\u2019s election; Barry Goldstein gives us the inside story on covering the 2016 Republican and Democratic national conventions; and David Lehman explains what crowdsourcing and poetry have in common.
Mentioned in this episode:\u2022 Charles Johnson\u2019s original 2008 essay, \u201cThe End of the Black American Narrative\u201d\u2022 David Lehman\u2019s \u201cNext Line, Please\u201d blog\u2022 Barry Goldstein\u2019s portraits from the conventions
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