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Rosa Parks and Fannie Lou Hamer and Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan and many others are testament to that fight. Biden deserves credit for trying to change that history. Harris was the betting ...

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Richard Kurin, now a distinguished scholar at the Smithsonian, remembers Long during the 1990 Festival of American Folklife. In one tent, Long was telling tourists, “We’re in a church in Mississippi, ...

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