Gerald Patnode on History, Empathy, and Untold Stories

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Sep 1, 202627:20Arts

"What must it have felt like to be a white attorney defending a Black man in 1890, at the height of racism in the United States? I think there are lessons to be learned by those stories that we can tell about history in...

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