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Deadly Serious | The Crusader Newspaper Group

By Oscar H. Blayton Black folks’ struggle to exist in America is no game. It is deadly serious. The bloody opposition to our survival in this white dominated society is a daunting challenge for all people of color. Since arriving in the Americas as captive and enslaved human chattel, Black folk have suffered every conceivable […]

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