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John H. Bracey Jr.—an architect of Black studies—who helped to create one of the nation’s first doctoral programs in African American studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, died over the weekend. Bracey was 81.

Florida’s unapologetically racist governor, Ron DeSantis, has effectively declared war on the Black freedom movement.

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