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How to heal African-Americans’ traumatic history
Do you smell it? That foul odor that floats in the air, when something you thought was dead is unearthed.
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- The Conversation
That’s the smell of ole man Jim Crow crawling back into our daily lives.
One of the most horrendous and abhorrent forms of Jim Crow violence – the racial caste system that operated between 1877 and the mid-1960s, primarily in Southern states – was the publicly sanctioned use of…
These killings were perpetrated by those who enjoyed the protection of white supremacist social policies designed to maintain strict control of African-Americans through the…