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Basic refrain, it's important to mention, for those folks who are shall we say content with the moment, i want folks to understand the implication of the collapse of reconstruction. from 1868 to 1898, 30 year period, 53,000 black folks were killed, 53,000 black folks were killed as the nation walked back its effort to be a multi racial democracy. symone, i'm not talking about spectacular lynchings, and talk about killing with folks who are -- walking out from their farms, trying to in some ways terrorize those people who became the new leaders of the country. we have a historical precedent for...

The playwright's ancestors were deeply involved in the conflict.

He was renting a small flat on a rundown farm. it was here that he used his engineering skills to make the ammunition. it needed to fit the calibre of the antique 1898 revolver he had bought in an online auction. this is somebody who clearly had a significant interest in firearms. the revolver he was walking around the streets of london with in the early hours was a firearm but at the time could be legally purchased, and he purchased it through an internet site. th he purchased it through an internet site. :: :: he purchased it through an internet site. :: i: y :, he purchased it through an in...

To share secret messages. certain moves or beats became codes and could be a protest or even a shout-out that they were plans to do something like open up a can of whoop ass and rebel. now when the colonizers finally got a clue about subversive messages buried in the beats, the ongoing battle to silence movements of independence began and have continued into modern times. - it was gag laws. - it is, yeah. - implemented, like, in the '50s. - in the '50-- 1950s? - yeah, yeah. - that late. - not that long ago. - yeah, yeah. - to break it up. - police would come, arrest people, you know. it-- it w...

John travels to the island of Puerto Rico to highlight the many ways in which the island and its people have influenced American culture and the ways in which...