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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.

Read on www.newyorker.com

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Doctor Rita

One patient had just left. Another was due in an hour. Rita Blumenstein -- Doctor Blumenstein -- sat in her easy chair and recalled her first memory of healing someone, the day almost 60 years ago when she prevented an infection from dog bites. The patient was her mother. Rita was 4 years old.

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Racial Identity