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Did You Know Black People Started Memorial Day? Here’s The Tea.

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Memorial Day may be the unofficial start of summer, but it is also time set aside to remember this country’s fallen soldiers. Many Black folks roll their eyes at what this day means, but they shouldn’t. We are the reason the holiday exists. Read more…

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5 Inconvenient, Ugly Truths About America’s ‘Founding Fathers’ And Slavery

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In the new History Channel documentary series “Thomas Jefferson,” America’s third president claimed that he had a plan to free enslaved Black Americans years before the American Revolution. Jefferson wrote in his memoir, “Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson,” that in 1769 he and his cousin proposed a bill that would… Read more…

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