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Thomas Jefferson is canceled (or at least a Detroit group thinks an exhibition about the slave-owner should be)

On Friday, dozens of protesters braved the cold to gather outside of Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in protest of the traveling exhibition Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: Paradox of Liberty, which opened to the public that day. Chanting “Jefferson was a racist, Jefferson was a pedophile,” the protesters held signs that […]

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