These kids are brilliant, brave, and strong. Quick but wonderful video for today. Must see:

[lindysalsagal]

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/03/884832594/video-frederick-douglass-descendants-read-his-fourth-of-july-speech?fbclid=IwAR2nLmtKABjGgVY-xAB1U3OYkmSma8D2a3-X3HcOB6ZCVPJeUSXK11CBNqA

[cilla4progress]

1. This was incredible.

I should watch it again. Everyone - PLEASE WATCH!

Smithsonian is also amplifying voices of the founders' descendants, including Thomas Jefferson's AA sixth great grandson!

https://boingboing.net/2020/07/03/sixth-great-grandson-of-thomas.html

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Shannon LaNier is a television reporter, actor, author, and a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States. He's also a Black man — the sixth great-grandson of Jefferson and Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman who had six children with the Founding Father.

Spine-tingling!!

[dhill926]

2. wow...damn powerful....

[genxlib]

3. That was great

A fine group of young people their.