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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Merton Simpson says America must come to grips with the legacy of racism
Description: Merton D. Simpson has always had a sense of his African ancestry and his Blackness.He was born in Charleston, South Carolina and raised in Brooklyn so he says he’s always known the deep divisions in the United States.“My mother has just turned 89 years old and she’s a master teacher,” says Simpson in this week’s podcast.As a first-born son, he has his father’s name. “My father was one of the foremost African art dealers in the world. He also was at the vanguard of the expressionist art movement with...