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Item Civil Rights Activist, Poet, Bookseller: An Interview with Charlie Cobb(AAIHS, 2017-02) Davis, Joshua C.This is an edited excerpt of an interview I conducted with Charlie Cobb in October 2015. Perhaps best known as a key organizer in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Cobb also co-founded the Drum and Spear Bookstore in Washington, D.C. in 1968. Since the 1970s, Cobb has enjoyed a lengthy career as a journalist and the author of several books, including This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible.Item Coming Around on Martin Luther King Jr.: My Grandma, the Black church and me(Salon.com, LLC., 2019-01-22) Watkins, Dwight; Communications Design; Communications DesignIn my youth, my Grandma wanted me to be more like MLK, but I didn't think he had anything to offer a kid like me.Item Explaining Why Black Lives Matter To My White Child(The Baltimore Sun, 2016-08-13) Kassner, Joshua J.Recently, I had to explain the "Black Lives Matter" movement to my daughter. She had heard her mother and me talking about the protests across the country. She didn't understand why people were protesting, and, like many who don't understand, she asked a version of the question, "Don't all lives matter?" Her question was not rhetorical but sincere. As some context, we are white. My daughter is 7, and her two best friends are both people of color. One is African American and the other is South American. My daughter simply couldn't understand why any of them would matter less or more than the others.Item Why Washinton, D.C., is the Most Undemocratic of Capitals(Zocalo, 2018-05-23) Asch, Chris Myers; Musgrove, George Derek