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A Time for Burning

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Robert Jones, Jr.
Sep 12, 2025
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LEFT: Ernest William Chambers. RIGHT: L. William Youngdahl inside a barber shop. A still from the 1966 documentary, A Time for Burning.

Welcome to Witness, a reader-supported publication where I write in the traditions of Black resistance and survival in an age of artistic and political suppression. If you find something of value here, please consider be…

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