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Slavery and America’s Legacy of Family Separation

In early May 2018 news broke that federal officials had lost track of nearly 1,500 children. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced

American nationalism, like all other nationalisms, is an imagined concept of belonging and community. In this regard, it is not

*The following post is an abridged version of Fredrick Douglass‘ famed speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?,”

On Sunday April 17, 2016, my extended family in Tidewater Virginia was struck by the tragedy of a double loss.

In April 2018, the Equal Justice Initiative’s (EJI) opened the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and the National