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us editors here at the Book Review.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Khalil Jabran Muhammad, who is the director of New York City's Schomburg Center for

Research in Black Culture, and the author of the Condemnation of Blackness, Race, Crime,

and the Making of Urban America, joins us now.

Hi, Khalil.

Hi, Pam.

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