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How mass deportations would cripple America’s workforce, by Julianne Malveaux

Douglas Turner Ward (1930-2021) wrote a searing play, “Days of Absence,” that imagined life in a small Southern town where all the Black residents disappeared overnight. Predictably, the white townspeople could not walk and chew gum, neither at one time nor at the same time.

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Black Music Month and Sly Stone’s songs remind us to hope, by Julianne Malveaux

Dyana Williams, Kenny Gamble and Ed Wright founded Black Music Month in June 1979. Also known as African American music Appreciation Month, it was first officially celebrated by President Jimmy Carter with a White House reception.