Medical Exploitation of Black People In America
“It’s my belief that revealing the dark history of medical racism is key to making sure that past injustices do not recur,” Deion Scott Hawkins writes.
“It’s my belief that revealing the dark history of medical racism is key to making sure that past injustices do not recur,” Deion Scott Hawkins writes.
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Former Mississippi art teacher and “Justice for Emmett Till” advocate Sonny Strauss shares his journey of digging into his own ancestry, where he learned that his ancestors were some of the first wealthy, white, slave-owning individuals in Virginia.
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