Clarence Lusane
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Twenty Dollars and Change
places Harriet Tubman's life and legacy in a long tradition of
resistance, illuminating the ongoing struggle to realize a democracy in
which her emancipatory vision prevails.
America is in the
throes of a historic reckoning with racism, with the battle for control
over official narratives at ground zero. Across the country,
politicians, city councils, and school boards are engaged in a highly
polarized debate about...
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Official histories of the United States have ignored the fact that 25 percent of all U.S. presidents were slaveholders, and that black people were held in bondage in the White House itself. And while the nation was born under the banner of "freedom and justice for all," many colonists risked rebelling against England in order to protect their lucrative slave business from the growing threat of British abolitionism. These historical facts, commonly...