NYT Warps History To Support Cleopatra's 'Cultural Blackness'
The New York Times defends anti-historical ideas that Cleopatra was herself black, if not ethnically then culturally.
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The New York Times defends anti-historical ideas that Cleopatra was herself black, if not ethnically then culturally.
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