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These kids are brilliant, brave, and strong. Quick but wonderful video for today. Must see: (Original Post) lindysalsagal Jul 2020 OP
This was incredible. cilla4progress Jul 2020 #1
wow...damn powerful.... dhill926 Jul 2020 #2
That was great genxlib Jul 2020 #3

cilla4progress

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1. This was incredible.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 01:27 PM
Jul 2020

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!!

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