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Condoleezza Rice, Coleman Hughes & More on Black History Month
Condoleezza Rice, Coleman Hughes & More on Black History Month
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A symposium on race, racism, excellence and America.
By Bari Weiss
02.22.22 — Culture and Ideas
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Condoleezza Rice, Coleman Hughes & More on Black History Month

Why does Condoleezza Rice celebrate Black History Month? Because, as the former Secretary of State told me last week during a wide-ranging interview: “When I was a little kid growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, in fourth grade, we had a book called ‘Know Alabama.’ And you would never have known that there were any black people as part of that history. So…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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