After a war veteran began to speak on the Black history of the commemoration, the organizer of a Memorial Day gathering in Hudson, Ohio, muted his microphone halfway through his speech. According to the Akron Beacon Journal, the audio on retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter’s keynote speech for the Hudson …
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When February rolled around last year, Ebele Azikiwe was in sixth grade, and it was time to study Black culture. Rosa Parks, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and a debate on slavery were all on the curriculum at the time. She said it was the same as the year …
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