Mending History, Stories of Long-Awaited Justice For POC: First Black Historic District in Philly, & Burial Plots Discovered at the Oldest Baptist Church In America

Mending History is a recurring TNS series that highlights those advocating to right the wrongs of U.S. history, one action at a time.

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Have things actually gotten better for Black people in the U.S.?

That’s the question I and many others have been asking ourselves for years, struggling to see how modern tools of systemic oppression are any different from those of the 19th and 20th centuries. It feels as if the civil rights they told us we’d won - the ending of slavery, vot…