The Dream and the Nightmare
American promises of freedom and equality have provided sufficient opportunity for blacks to improve their lot. by Lucas E. Morel – Summer 2023 – Claremont Review of Books What does The State of Black America have to do with Progress, Pitfalls, and the Promise of the Republic? Has the United States been more boon than bane to Africans on American soil and their descendants? These questions are disturbing for the simple reason that they continue to be asked generations after racial slavery was abolished and de jure segregation ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The arguments and evidence presented in this unconventional collection of essays, edited … Continue reading The Dream and the Nightmare