Kevin Young Discusses “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay

Poet Kevin Young, editor of the Library of America anthology "African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song," comments on the 1919 poem by Claude McKay (1889–1948). Watch Young's reading of the poem here:
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