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Writer James Baldwin said “the story of the negro in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story.” To Clay Morris of Jackson, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, America’s story has always not been “pretty” for Black Americans but is only just becoming so for white Americans. Photo courtesy Allan Warren

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OPINION: Blackness and Whiteness, To Whom the Story of America Concerns

James Baldwin said "the story of the in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story." This ugly, brutal, and festering story is the truth that …

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