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  • Our History: Compass to Our Future

    We sat down with noted scholar Mary Frances Berry to talk about her new book, Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families from Emancipation to the Present

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  • A Black Women’s Love Letter

    I celebrate you – Black women – by invoking these “she-rose” sisters who’ve made enduring freedom strides over the centuries.

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  • Fourteenth Street On Fire: What Happened to Chocolate City

    By Gwen McKinney This commentary is part of Unerased | Black Women Speak’s December exploration Claiming Our Space: Preserving Our Future. Today I live on the outskirts of the nation’s capital, about 15 miles south of the city center, in Prince George’s County, MD– a place of manicured lawns and open green space, considered the…

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  • Navigating the Civic Hell Hole for Formerly Incarcerated

    Across the nation, formerly incarcerated people confront a patchwork quilt of barriers, poll taxes and hoops that create a kind of civic hell hole denying returning citizens the right to cast a ballot.

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  • The Passions of Danny Glover

    Labor’s cultural atmosphere seeded an understanding of the collective rights of a community, a people. The labor movement unifies men and women around the value of working together collectively with respect and dignity.

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