The Name Game: 15 Ways Black People Are Shaded for Their Names

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When Your Last Name Has Slave History Written All Over It

I don’t know why white people were surprised to find out that Thomas Jefferson was visiting the slave quarters at night. Half of us are Jeffersons or Washingtons or Jacksons or a few other slave-time presidents we could name.

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