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“What’s It Like to Learn This?”

Finding Your Roots (PBS) This is the other ancestry show. The same cross-section of famous people get to undergo the Henry Louis Gates, Jr. journey into their past. But Mr. Gates has an agenda. He wants them to confront slavery … Continue reading

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A Footnote in History from 60 Years Ago

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (September 15, 1963) Today is the 60th anniversary of this domestic terrorism attack on a church in Alabama by the KKK. Because the exact time of the dynamite explosion is known, this is an accurate … Continue reading

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