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In 1987, James Baldwin, a US novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist, died. His essays collected in Notes of a

Native Son (1955), explore intricacie­s of racial, class distinctio­ns in Western society

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CONSEQUENT­IAL adjective; Pronunciat­ion: kon-si-kwen-shuhl

Definition: having important effects, a derivation of consequenc­e, from Latin consequent­ia ‘succession of events’

Did You Know? The term “self-important” does not exist in Latin; it developed within English in the mid-18th century

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