Different stories told differently matter. Consider Memorial Day and the holiday that could have been if white media hadn’t erased Black history. In May 1865, a week before President Abraham Lincoln declared the end of the Civil War, freed Blacks in Charleston, SC were already celebrating the defeat of the Confederacy. On May 1, the More

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