How Many LBJs Did You Skew Today?
Alvin B. Tillery, Jr., explains what it’s like to watch the film Selma as a black American history scholar.
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Today on The Gist, Pond’s face cream, plus water, gurgle and swallow. (Vine here.) Plus, associate professor of political science at Northwestern University Alvin B. Tillery, Jr., explains how the movie Selma got LBJ wrong (among other things). For the Spiel, the publishing industry is not threuss with Seuss.
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