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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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The Confederate Flag Is Still on Interstate 65

The American south is littered with iconography designed to memorialize and honor the architects and defenders of the confederacy. When i moved to montgomery in the 19 eighties, this was a city that had 59 markers and memorials to theConfederacy. You could not find the word slave or slavery or enslavement anywhere in this city. And i still live in a state where confederate memorial day is a state holiday,. We don't have martin through king day in alabama. We have martinthrough king slash robert e lee day. That giant confederate flag is still on interstate 65.

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