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The Summer of 88

www.theroot.com - This summer marks 20 years from what is considered by many to be hip-hop's Golden Age, a tumultous period in urban life that fueled an explosion in black cultural nationalism in cities across the U.S. The following essay is adapted from Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood , Spiegel & Grau (2008). A memoir, the book explores the writer's coming of age in the shadow of a charismatic older brother and a father who was a former Black Panther and rebel book publisher.

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