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Rev. Dr. JoAnn Watson, a former Detroit city council leader and ardent advocate for reparations, dead at 72

The Rev. Dr. JoAnn Watson’s legend reached well beyond the precincts of Detroit, where she was a formidable political leader of the City Council. In the vast realm of Black liberation, self-determination, and the reparations movement, she was a remarkable clear-eyed visionary, and the notice of her death this week also brings in its wake […]

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