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History has a fickle memory, very often intentionally so. Alternative facts are not a new phenomenon; they are the foundation upon which black history has been told in schools and communities across the country since before I was a young boy growing up in the segregated south of St. Joseph, Mo.
Paul Thornton
There has been a systematic and historical failure to acknowledge that black history is everybody’s history. That black lives matter. When I . . .
