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Given the racist, anti-history bent of our current government and its concerted efforts to whitewash and erase history—especially Black history—I have zero expectation that there will be an official acknowledgement of the fact that Aug. 23 is the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition.

So I’m gathering materials here for community members to read, watch and share. We all, no matter our artificially constructed “race” or our ancestral nationalities, have benefited from and suffered due to an insidious plot known as the transatlantic slave trade, w

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