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Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil War transforming Confederate crimes into virtues. It is illegal to fly the Nazi flag in Germany. The Confederate flag is enmeshed in the state flag of Mississippi.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Joint of The Moment: “Blur” by The Marias

The Marías are the psychedelic-soul lovechild of Puerto Rican-bred, Atlanta-raised María Zardoya and Los Angeles native Josh Conway. The two are joined by their closest friends, Jesse Perlman on guitar and Edward James on keys. Their undeniably intuitive musical chemistry can be heard in the band's smooth rendezvous of jazz percussion, hypnotic guitar riffs, smoke-velvet vocals and nostalgic horn solos. There's something undeniably sensual in their dreamlike fusion of jazz, psychedelia, funk and lounge.

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Bingeworthy: Orphan Black

"Orphan Black," created by Graeme Manson and John Fawcett, is a critically acclaimed sci-fi thriller that premiered in 2013 on BBC America. The series follows Sarah Manning, a street-smart woman who discovers she's one of several genetically identical clones after witnessing the suicide of a woman who looks exactly like her. As Sarah delves deeper…

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