[Black Brazil\COVID-19]
The Conversation: “The Brazilian Health Ministry had already flagged high COVID-19 death rates among Afro-Brazilians, a category that includes people who identify as “Black” or “Brown” in the census.”
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Slavery
Is America Finally Acknowledging Its Wretched Past to Change Future?
[George Floyd Aftermath]
Koehler: “What matters about the present moment is that change seems to be coming from multiple directions, both outside and within the corridors of political and economic power.”
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NY-16 Congressional Challenger Bowman: Make Juneteenth a National Holiday
[Jamaal Bowman\NY-16\Juneteenth]
Bowman: “Making Juneteenth a national holiday would be just one step, albeit a significant one, in a larger effort to root out the racism that’s been part of this country since the very beginning.’
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Understanding History of Juneteenth to Slavery and Emancipation
[Juneteenth]
Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.
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THE PANDEMIC OF AMERICAN RACISM MUST BE HEALED TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY
[American Racism]
Koehler: “Real change would probably have to begin with an enormous public conversation, and national acknowledgment of our history, including slavery and genocide — the theft of people, the theft of the continent — followed by atonement, reparations.”
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BOB MARLEY’S REDEMPTION SONG: “SONGS OF FREEDOM”
[Celebrating Black History Month\Bob Marley\Poetry]
Bob Marley: “Won’t You help to sing, These songs of freedom? ‘Cause all I ever had, Redemption songs.”
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