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They say it's the administration’s latest move to downplay how race, racism and Black Americans shaped the nation’s story.

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This is an opinion column. We’ll still have helped build the house where he now resides. We’ll still have been the first to die in the quest for freedom in this new nation. We’ll still have ...

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