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The Haitian Revolution (Radio Edit)

You're Dead to Me

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Is Tucson Louverture a Name That Rings a Bell?

Malena: "Tucson Louverture is somebody that we should celebrate the same way we celebrate people like Malcolm X" He's born enslaved on the island, his father is probably from Senegal and had been captured. But he has a sort of interesting story because he doesn't spend his whole life enslaved,. No, he doesn't. And so it adds these kind of very strange paradox to his history where the same system that once enslaved him, he participates in.

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