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Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army

Eugene Meyer's account centers on the five Black men who joined John Brown at Harpers Ferry: Osborne Perry Anderson, John Anthony Copeland, Shields Green, Lewis Leary, and Dangerfield Newby. In the book, he profiles each man. 
 
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Fibroids Are Never Too Large For Me

"But at the end of the day, there's so much that happens in medicine that people do not understand," Dr. Pierre Johnson said, suggesting that – because the patient is a Black woman – racial bias likely played a role in other doctors' reluctance to operate. 
 
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Want Obama Presidential Center Tickets? Here’s What to Know.

The Obama Presidential Center will host an invitation–only grand opening ceremony on June 18 that can be livestreamed and on the Obama Foundation social media accounts. Tickets through late July are sold out, and Illinois Free Days (Tuesdays) are sold out through late October.
 
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Update on POHGEP's New Slavery Exhibit for The Gambia

The new exhibit, "The Trans-Atlantic Human Trade and The Gambia's Overflowing Significance," will further decolonize the historic center by using more local languages and scripts.
 
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Activities

We have added to our personal calendar the African American Civil War Memorial Museum Founder's Day Celebration for Fri, May 22, in D.C. In New York, "FIVE SESSIONS…A War in Therapy" opens at Chain Theater on Fri, May 22. Listen online to the late Jason Collins as he opens up on his battle with glioblastoma under “In Memoriam.”

Image: Jason Collins.
 


Readers' Trends

Click here to see the #1 image on our Facebook page that inspired us to opine: I like this. So often, I see posts by people noting White American historical amnesia. Then, calling some Israelis colonizers as if Americo–Liberians are invisible, and if all Americans, sans Natives, are viewed by some First Nation people as colonizers.
 
 
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