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Colin Kaepernick and <i>Blade Runner</i>: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing

Highlights from seven days of reading about arts and entertainment
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Rembert Browne | “As a black man with a black biological father and a white biological mother, adopted by loving white parents who raised him in a majority white town to become a star three-sport athlete, a God-fearing Christian, and a model citizen, this went well beyond the experience of a privileged American jock. This was a unique finesse, somewhere between

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