Someday I'm going to have this made into a tee-shirt. You can read the speech here. It's filled with all the promise--and problems--that walk with Anthony's descendants to this very day.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, and We Were Eight Years in Power.