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While history is what happened, it is also, just as important, how we think about what happened and what we unearth and choose to remember about what happened

— Nikole Hannah-Jones The 1619 Project (2019)

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This has been a fundamental problem with news institutions, now and in the past. They attempt to cover racism and inequality without understanding it themselves.

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The hundred-year period of racial apartheid and racial terrorism known as Jim Crow.

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If we are truly a great nation, the truth cannot destroy us.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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