Text: But he was among the first to explore them with a level of intellectual verve and artistic sophistication that suggested to blacks and the world that there was, within the American dilemma of race, not only the expression of mere local and immediate political protest but the broad and rich possibilities of the human condition itself.
Entailment: He explored the issue of race in a wider context than before.
Contradiction: His work covered race debates which were dated and overdone.