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How The Legacy Museum & The National Memorial for Peace Aims to Reconcile the Trauma Associated with Lynchings Through Truth & Candidness

On April 26, 2018 in Montgomery, Alabama the very first museum and memorial dedicated solely to the memory of lynched African-Americans opened. The National Memorial For Peace and Justice is a reminder to so many that systematic terrorism and the assault of black people in America is not new and that their memory should not…

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Black Twitter Drags NY Times Writer for Comparing Saartjie Baartman “Hottentot Venus” to Kim Kardashian

This past Tuesday, the New York Times found itself in hot water concerning a review of an Off-Broadway play. Ben Bartley wrote an insensitive description of Saartjie Baartman, the African slave woman Venus is centered around. The play by Suzan-Lori Parks details the real life exploitation of Baartman, who was forced to participate in European…

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