Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. (Henry Louis Gates)

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

Henry Louis Gates

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