Toni Morrison died Tuesday at the age of 88. She was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The World’s host Marco Werman speaks with La Vinia Delois Jennings, an English professor at the University of Tennessee and the author of “Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa.”
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