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Frederick Douglass's "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" in 2022

Toni Morrison's "Jazz", the 1917 East St. Louis riots, and the Silent Parade in New York City

Philosophy in the pub

Casa, cosa, caso – and coso, the Spanish word for thingamajig or whatshisname

Cassidy Hutchinson, Donald Trump, and "say something to the effect of/that"

Slipping away with Neil Young and Crazy Horse: "Broken Arrow" and the Zurich concert in 1996