We would all benefit by learning more about one another, and by embodying this secular holiday’s ideals of happiness, unity and peace.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Leonard Pitts: You can vandalize black history, but you can never erase it
If more of us had the courage to deal with the feelings stirred by Emmett Till’s murder, the site where his body was recovered wouldn’t need a bulletproof marker.
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Posted inLocal & State, News
USM creates fellowship honoring Gerald Talbot, state’s first African-American lawmaker
The Talbot Fellow recognizes the life’s work of the longtime civic rights leader, who gathered an important black history collection that he gifted to the university.