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willing to testify before the january 6th committee. what impact if any does testimony could have on his criminal contempt try oh. plus, we will break down what to expect at tomorrow's january 6th hearing. in the next hour, president biden will pass a gun safety law and what it means for the national gun violence epidemic. gun violence activist and father of highland park shooting victim will be with us this morning. meanwhile, it's been one year after a crackdown on protest for freedom in cuba. the crackdowns by the regime continues. we will talk about what is next in cuba's fig...

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In Danielle N. Boaz (Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of North Carolina-Charlotte) writes about the history of the word “voodoo,” as discussed in her new book Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur. See full article in The Conversation. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention. Also see previous…

The term voodoo traces its roots back to a word in the Fon language in West Africa that means “spirit” or “deity.”

(The Conversation) — Shows, movies and day-to-day language promote myths about voodoo that reinforce more than a century of stereotypes and discrimination, writes a scholar of Africana studies.