How a new generation is setting the record straight on black US history

Recent traumas in the US have energised a fresh wave of academic studies that are finally telling the full story of centuries-long abuse and forgotten resistance

Ibram X Kendi dubs this time the black renaissance". Owing to activism on the ground, he says, there's been a growing awareness of racism itself, and a recognition that folks don't understand the lives that black people have lived and are living today. And that awareness has led to a growing demand that is being supplied by this incredible number of black creators across genres."

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