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MY FATHER’S LEGACY |Managing Editor of Black Experience Network| Howard Alum 💙🦬❤️ | @BarackObama White House Alum |AME Preacher

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"My goal is to help create better opportunities for African-Americans and if I can't create it I'll fund it." - Vincent Van Jr. (This will be the quote that sums my life when its all said and done)
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If you are in your 30s or late 20s the loss of Takeoff really hits because the Migos will always represent a certain time in your life..We started yelling Versace on college nights to Walking it like we talk it in our jobs/careers..Long Live Takeoff! 🙏🏾🙏🏾
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@rachaelxss It doesn't matter what they try to set min wage at..If we dont address the unfair housing industry and why rent/mortgages are so high especially in low income communities
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Rickey Smiley is the first to respond to Katt Williams interview 👀👀
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@SaycheeseDGTL It’s clearly most women didn’t watch the full podcast..The attacks this guy is facing based upon a 10 second clip about HIS experience is wild..He literally goes the entire interview honoring and showering his wife Simone with love..You people are pathetic smh
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@VinceJVan
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This pic won't go around but we know how it is...
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@xrayvision99 @MissBeaE Y’all laughing now but that’s gonna be y’all watching Chris Brown perform in 25+ years
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@SaycheeseDGTL I guess we aren’t going to talk about this full section of him talking about how Simone was critical in his mental health journey…
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Since yall running this up..Here is a gif for the year 🤣
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@youngflymouthOG @jonxjae Man don’t apologize it was a team effort!! You were driving and her support the whole time...The last time I checked the coaches get rings too!
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@Laurenxcx135 @JuliaOsagie19 Allergies and Covid are two different things..You can’t “catch” an allergy
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@jiggyjayy2 To take a short clip from an interview where he is showing his wife Simone great honor and respect to push this terrible take is wild..Black should not be on search of men who make more than them, but for men that are right for them..Why not discuss this + take from the
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There should be more Democrats joining Jon Ossoff !Speaker Pelosi’s husband like many other congressional spouses has made millions in the stock market — This bill will ban Congressional members from stock trades.
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Jon Ossoff expected to snub Pelosi by pushing ban on Congress stock trades
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@Southside_Gunn This is why I charge my brothers to stay faithful and value your lady because we cannot take the same dish that we serve to them...
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@PrinceHAK33M Yall really the problem and the reason these rappers think they have to stay rapping about the streets…A dude makes a song about changing his life and you hate it smh
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@TheGrapevineTV No worries sisters..There are still Black men who honor you!
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@OldmanJerome99 How are you a Black filmmaker with an anti-Black lens about your fellow Black peers…As if these movies/shows don’t exist.
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@Layy__ Its clear you havent driven through southern Virginia..You drive through Newport, Lynchburg, Norfolk, Tappahannock and others and there is no difference between VA and South Carolina
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Jackson State has the BEST college football atmosphere out of ANY HBCU…It’s the one stadium that actually can rival the Power 5..You can’t critique if you haven’t been
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No caption needed… Y’all know what time it is!
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All this is going on and @Bet has zero news coverage..This is why @rolandsmartin and so many other Black news outlets are important. We do not have a national stage for Black news and information smh!
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If Coach Willie leaves FAMU for a position job at Duke, I hope all of you Coach Prime critics are consistent….
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There is no comeback like a comeback from a Black woman...✊🏿
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@KenHeLive How you see a fabric retractable roof and an NBA arena video board and come to that conclusion 😂😂
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@OfficialFBMA fellas let us pray for our young brother..Brother Offset needs grace and mercy 🙏🏾
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@TendentiousG Negative.. You don’t take a shirt away from a child..The embarrassment it brings..All she had to do was bend down and ask the baby "Do you know what this means?", then teach the child about the sorority. The letter was perfectly fine, but the historical hostility around taking
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@thewayoftheid The crazy thing is that the people often with bonnets and durags are the freshest on their trip..While nothing is being said about Doug and Paula who are wearing wrinkled cargo pants and gift shop shirts
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@KeepingItNeet Doesn’t tell the full story..More white people are identifying as biracial in this census than in 2010 the report shows
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@timmychalms14 @ESPNNFL @thecheckdown Asked about Instagram and he was giving him his number
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While they are trying to take Critical Race Theory out of schools, we have white high school students in Louisiana throwing cotton at Black students and hitting them with belts.. Vanderbilt Catholic High School in Louisiana, we need answers!!
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We have normalized stress…Truth of the matter is that Covid should have been a cultural reset but we tried to hustle pass the lesson…
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@ArtOfDialogue_ This is clown behavior…There was no need to put this information out. It’s embarrassing, baseless, and wreckless to use your platform to make such claims even if this were the case…
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@Jacobtheclipper LeBron decision to join another team was the beginning of the “Player First” era…Teams created super teams all prior to, but LeBron empowered players to make the decision for themselves…I will always side with players.
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@AtticussFrench @elariaxw You can’t put this all on the venue when people literally broke into the festival..People must also take accountability
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@will_c723 @JoshFeibus If you think AMERICA is a third world country I need you to please travel more…
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@BoxingKingdom14 Truth be told UFC is more fan friendly. Boxing has too division politics and promotion beefs that limit or prolong fights. However, Boxing is fighter friendly. You can make more money as a boxer while taking less damage. Dana and UFC aren’t paying fighters.
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@Symoneey @E40 @jermainedupri has a new vegan ice cream that is at Walmart right now
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@TheRoot Not going to lie I’m going to have to tell myself Family Matters isn’t real lol
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@3randyn Yall acting like he is sick..He has been out of the league for 4 years..He just gained some weight
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@1yshaun You couldn’t say lady, woman, girl, spouse, baby, bae…You just had to call her that term?
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@NBAPaint1 Tatum is only 25 is is the LEADER of the new school
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Shoutout to @rolandsmartin and @tvonetv for the election night special..Can't say the same for other urban outlets 😒😒
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This is literally what @rolandsmartin is talking about and why we need to support Black Owned media
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A very high % of those accounts and sites are not black-owned, but the true scam is they are getting advertising dollars that are set aside for minority customers. So if McDonald's budgets $10 mil for diversity advertising, it goes to a biz like this with no diverse ownership,
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@temsgallery @JalenHurts He clearly says he is with his girlfriend in the video..His girlfriend is sitting right next to him….
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@NubiaDs59 @GQue2_1911 Yea I’m not doing this at all? Lol
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@ThatDakari Truth be told some of y’all don’t know how to act and want everything under the sun but don’t even tip well..Bringing a group of 8+ and wanting individual checks is tough on the host team, only for folks to give under 10 percent tips…These rules don’t come out of nowhere.
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LeBron and Savannah James becoming billionaires is a good story to read..LeBron's brand is built off of his legacy on the court and off the court and Savannah has been there the entire time helping with the empire!
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The fact that people are shading Lil Mama is exactly what is wrong with the culture..Popularity over talent most of the time now smh
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You would think our mayor lives in a battleground state..We just reported a record-setting total of 844 new cases and she says a MASK MANDATE is “on the table” in the midst of all of this!
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Michael Brice-Saddler
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New: @MayorBowser says reinstating the mask mandate is 'on the table' as city officials seek to stymie surging coronavirus caseloads. Today the city reported a record-setting total of 844 new cases; some schools in region are shifting to virtual learning:
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@asj519 Let’s not overreact and make this an problem around men..It’s a societal issue…If Beyoncé said she is doing a pop up giveaway and it was just her and her guards, it would be worse…
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@nodqdotcom Even in high school he looked old 🤦🏾‍♂️
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@___Tetee Kids doesn’t stop this but boy I wish y’all understand how much easier it is without kids..
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@FlintGreyJune @KensBestLyfe IDK…Music is better with writing teams anyway! Drake, Beyonce, Michael Jackson, etc created their greatest songs with help..We need to debunk this need to do it all alone
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@KatMeanJean Can we stop trying to penalize the Church based off of a small percentage of churches..Majority of churches in the country are small and are community churches.
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Fidel Castro is one of the most complicated leaders..Growing up in Miami I am taught to simply hate this man, but after traveling to Cuba and Ghana people tell different stories of Fidel.
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@DeeLaSheeArt No different than Disney and Nickelodeon running toy ads and candy ads that target kids between shows…Most kids love cereal, snacks, and toys because of commercials that run during their shows.
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Druski should have never deleted it..The clip is satire and it should make men realize how creepy that behavior is because dudes really are out here like that
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@Shobeezy @DailyLoud @nojumper @DoeBoyOfficial The fact that we are talking about Tupac in 2023 is enough..He died nearly 30 years ago! Future is def one of the hip hop legends of his time, but its an unfair comparison because Pac only really had really 5-6 years in the industry, and Future is in year 11.
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A 15 Year Old in my SMD was killed today while sitting on his porch..Going from the crime scene and directly to our 7C ANC meeting tonight, where we discussed several recent shootings, was a display of how we have learned to live through trauma..This isn’t normal!
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Bernie has impressed me so far..I can’t believe I’m saying this #DemDebate
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This is going to be one heck of a movie in 15 years! I can see it now, Student of the Game in theaters 2033 #tyrone #howard
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Why isn’t Diontae Johnson getting targets??
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For too long families of the Hillbrook neighborhood in Ward 7 have to walk around gated playgrounds..Our children deserve to enjoy family activities on the weekends! @DCDPR @MayorBowser @VinceGrayWard7
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@DCPoliceDept Officer was hit by Paintball gun and returned fire..Unfortunate, but we live in a city where gun violence is REAL..Officers have a split second to make a decision and if your hit by force and see this in a mans hand you do not have time to decide if it’s real or not..
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@RealDealDailey @fashaw_34 Using extensions and stealing culture are two different things
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@TheDiplomat13 Yea that’s fine…But he is potentially leaving a HBCU during the height of his success for a power 5 school…We can debate the semantics of who leaves “nicer”, but it’s the same at the end of the day.
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@iMightBTorrence Its sad this is your take...That man literally almost died, and handled a crisis on campus all while keeping JSU the main thing..If Coach Prime would have had a bad team most of yall wouldnt even be caring like this..Talk about Eddie George who is at TSU like yall do Deion..
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@RubbaBand_Grant I can tell many of y’all don’t stay in the hood today..These youngins DO NOT BLUFF
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@Official__Reina @SaycheeseDGTL What are you talking about?? They asked them how they met and he told the truth about HIS experience with HIS wife…There was nothing wrong with him telling us how they met..The “I am the catch” was clearly tongue and check jargon after the comment “how did you get Simone Biles”
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I won’t go through my entire ballot, but I will tell you that I voted for @erinfordc and @bspivadc ..
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@YanniTsunami The crazy thing is we still have singers like this but the appetite changed in the industry…Execs/radio went from signing the biggest talents and putting money into artist development to buying viral ready artist
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@1TenToesDee Yeah its clear you haven't been to the countryside in Jamaica if you think that...DC is LIGHTWORK compared to gang violence in Jamaica...Don't forget it was Jamaicans that got gun violence poppin' in the US in the 80s...
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#SuitsFinale this episode is fire!!
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The mayor would rather force employees back in person rather than using this as an opportunity to reimagine our downtown.
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. @MayorBowser has made sure DC government is back in person. What we need now is the federal government to show leadership once again, as they’ve done throughout the pandemic, and come back. story abt the #DistrictofComebacks via @allyschweitzer @wamu885
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Good morning @DDOTDC .. The stop sign on 49th St. NE & Central Ave NE is down. Very dangerous due to it being down the street from our local middle school and across from Engine 30.
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What Andrew Grady did today was disgusting and I hope he is suspended. There should be no place in NASCAR for that time of assault. Such thug-like behavior.
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@AuthorRandallB Come on now…Even if it’s true you don’t have that meeting the day of a championship game
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@bykevinclark 5 out of the 10 are currently in the league..How is it chaotic???
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@itsmine49 Yea that’s fine…But he is potentially leaving a HBCU during the height of his success for a power 5 school…We can debate the semantics of who leaves “nicer”, but it’s the same at the end of the day.
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DC talk to me…Would you support a coffee shop in Ward 7 on Minnesota Ave?
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@RubbaBand_Grant Multimillionaire family don’t mean nothing..These youngins are build different..Plus go down this list and look at all of TI kids, despite having money they were raised different
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@rickyrozay you should make BuyBackTheBlock an actual movie!
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I don’t blame @RecordingAcad , but I will say I’m disappointed that @vic_land would create a catch grab list that would do more harm than good and also make @RecordingAcad look bad..We all know @NICKIMINAJ is missing…
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5 women essential to rap ⬇️ 🎵 @iamcardib 🎵 @LilKim 🎵 @mclyte 🎵 #SylviaRobinson 🎵 @TierraWhack Read more: #WomensHistoryMonth
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You did your thing @Jacquees ..The city is proud! #ATL
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Jackson State had an incredible year, but as many know you do not doubt a Coach Pough led team. Great atmosphere in Atlanta!! #CelebrationBowl
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"Hidden Fences" = all black people look alike
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@JessieTownes Though I agree that virtual church is here to stay, however, there is much value in the in-person experience.. In a society that has no problem doing everything else in person, I believe that its important to have a healthy balance..Yes Covid is real but thats not stopping yall..
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@iluvfastmoneyy @1yshaun Yea I will always be respectful
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@Shannon_FlyGuy If y’all going to do this we might as well say Salt & Pepper then
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@AriLennox This is just another example of social media being a mirror for society..Ari is so pure and some would rather attack instead of send positive energy
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@JasmynBeKnowing Who plays your parents in your biopic?
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No way the AMAs canceled Chris Brown last minute..At some point enough is enough with trying to blackball this brother. #letchrisbrownperform #LetChrisBrownPerformAMAs #AMAs
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@CandiceBenbow I think the was one of the best VERZUZ to date..When you think about the history and what was included in their beef and for them to get on the same stage and end the night making amends after 15 years of beefing..Don’t miss the message because of the presentation.
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#JusticeforLucca !! This has to stop
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Every Black person knows this feeling..The fake smile you have to wear in a racially insensitive space because you don’t want to come off as if “your a problem”…Black folks cheeks are sore from the amount of fake smiling we do while hurt within
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Really appreciate @RealTimeNews10 for keeping the community alerted on what’s going on! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
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I find it really strange that the NBA playoffs are going on, and not one NBA player has used their platform to shed light on the fact that @brittneygriner is still stuck in a Russian Jail! Where is the NBA? Where is Chris Paul? Where is LeBron? Where is Joe Biden?
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@OrangeBowlBoys JSU was on ESPN more than average P5 schools..Plus their Celebration Bowl was on ABC and garnered more in person attendance than the Chick Fil A Bowl.
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Man that’s so disrespectful on so many levels. Imagine if folks are running late to their jobs, interviews, hospital because of this..I hope the state troopers were called!
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@DeionSanders Truth be told, this house represents many Black homes that were destroyed in order to build highways throughout the country.
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