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Fighters, resisters, survivors: Our legacy of standing tall in the face of oppression

My great-great-grandfather, Moses, was a fighter and resister who was lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in 1906 for his efforts to encourage Black people to exercise their constitutional right to vote, and today we are facing a similar moment where we must fight against the collapse of democracy and the creation of a fascist regime that is trying to break us, silence us, and erase us.

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