Howard Beach: Black Leaders, White Liberals

Howard Beach: Black Leaders, White Liberals

Now that “instant analysis” of the Howard Beach tragedy has given way to the criminal justice process and to the combination of symbolic appropriation and amnesia that envelops such events, we need to retrieve a few lessons about leadership from the events of December through February.


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