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[Unedited] Tracy K. Smith and Michael Kleber-Diggs with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Black America, We Are Agents of the Eternal

"i feel inside me a welling up of pride, reverence and fierce protection these threats we live subjected to," he writes. "They are the grotesque and perverse ends to which a nation founded in shame has gone in order to avoid atoning for its crimes." The poem is part of an ongoing effort by poet Michaelangelo Sotomayor to shift his thoughts from one place to another.

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