S. African Comic Has Chance to Change US Perspectives

When I first heard South Africa’s most beloved comic, Trevor Noah, was going to take the helm from Jon Stewart at The Daily Show, I checked the date. No, it wasn’t April 1, April Fool’s Day.  It was real. Surely, I thought, people are joking when they ask if America is “ready” for Trevor Noah.  Is the United States - recently riven by race-related violence in Ferguson, Missouri and race scandals at top universities - ready to talk about race? How can we not be, when...

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