On the recordApril 4, 2022
This is in part why--a large part, I might add--I introduced H.J.Res. 64, calling for an annual day of to prevent the sanitization and whitewashing of our seminal sin: slavery.
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Al Green discusses his resolution for a Slavery Remembrance Day to acknowledge slavery's horrors.
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