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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CLEAR ALL
As both James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, Jr., insisted, America is an identity that white people will protect at any cost, and the country’s history—its founding documents, its national heroes—is the supporting argument that underpins that identity.
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