The Long Civil Rights Movement

The article titled "The Long Civil Rights Movement" features Shehryar Fazli in The Ideas Letter. It includes a quote from the character Belize, a Black nurse in Tony Kushner’s play Angels in America, which is set in the 1980s. Belize comments on the national anthem, stating, “The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing,” and notes that the word ‘free’ is set to a note so high that “no one can reach it.”