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Nikole Hannah-Jones on the power of collective memory

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The Origin of Slavery in the United States

Slavery was the root of so much in our society. I'd never been taught it in school. Id never been taught from a movie, from documentaries i'd watched on television. It's an experienced man people have encountering the education system here in the us. In our understanding of history, our national memory is manipulated by those who are in power. And that liberated me to come up with a different narrative and to try to y that which we had not been taught.

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