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To Walter Stafford and Manning Marable,
scholars who put truth in the face of power and complacency
and who left us too early;
to the late brother Rafiq Bilal,
master therapist and founder of
the San Francisco hip hop venue, the Upper Room;
and to the late ProfessorMichel Fabre,
who encouraged this work and hoped to read this book