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Joseph Vogel is an Assistant Professor at Merrimack College. He is the author of Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson, James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era, and This Thing Called Life: Prince, Race, Sex, Religion, and Music.
His book about the Atlanta child murders speaks best to the era of Black Lives Matter.
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