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From an early age, U.S. Cong. Danny K. Davis encountered the same historical forces that Juneteenth invites the nation to remember and confront. At eight years old, in 1949, Davis began picking and chopping cotton in the sweltering fields of Parkdale, Arkansas, moving in step with his parents and neighbors dragging overstuffed burlap sacks down […]
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