Clint Smith on US history - Black History Month | Brief But Spectacular

"When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don’t forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life." This is how poet Clint Smith begins his letter to past presidents who owned slaves. In honor of Black History Month, Smith offers his Brief But Spectacular take on the history of racial inequality in the U.S.
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