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By the power invested in me by integrationists and abolitionists past and present, I hereby proclaim June 12 as ...

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It has been five years since May 25, 2020, when George Floyd gasped for air beneath the knee of a Minneapolis police officer ...

On May 18, my church — the Unitarian Universalist Church of Roanoke — dedicated a memorial to those who were once enslaved on our property at the Brandon Avenue and ...

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