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When Black History Is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak for the Dead?

By Jill Lepore — 2021

Efforts to rescue African American burial grounds and remains have exposed deep conflicts over inheritance and representation.

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Why America Needs the Black Church for its Own Survival

Will the Black church become White? It sounds like a strange question. When my family watched the 2021 PBS documentary on the Black church, I noted the assumption by some of those interviewed that the Black church received its faith and theology as a part of the transatlantic slave trade.

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Charlie Dates
2021
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This Is Not Who We Are: Arab-Americans in a Post-9/11 World

Seeking consolation in a shaky world, Arab-American writer Naomi Shihab Nye finds wisdom in the melodies and memories of the people she loves.

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Naomi Shihab Nye
2002
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