Adventures in Nerdliness

The year was 1964. The stage was Carnegie Hall. The audience was mostly white. And there was Nina Simone, belting her first original protest song of the civil rights era, what our critic Wesley Morris calls a “bulletin of exasperated fury.” / NYT

The lyrics tick through “a miniature yet monolithic history of stalled achievements,” Wesley writes. “The longer the country held out for justice, the worse things got for the people kept waiting. That leisurely pace would lead only to more murder, and more assassinations.”

Simone is desperate, frustrated, out of answers. “Why don’t you see it,” she begs. The images of firehoses and fire bombings are in the news, on television. It’s a rhetorical plea that’s damning enough.

By the time Trent Crimm joins The Diamond Dogs they are already an established team. A respected veteran he finds himself an outsider who no longer fits in with the other journalists, and has experienced a life changing transformation.

Trent Crimm is seeking meaning and truth.

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