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Published August 3, 2020
A story in the interviewed Victoria Wolcott about young women of color taking the reins of grassroots protests against racism and for an end to police violence. “When I talk to my historian friends, we aren’t saying, ‘We’ve seen this before’” – which is historians’ default comment. “This is distinctive.” Wolcott added, “There is more recognition and understanding that those voices have been sublimated in the past.”
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