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With Black History Month upon us, it behooves us as Americans to honestly grapple with our past to better inform our present and help build a more perfect union for our future.
Black history is American history â and vice versa. The notion that Black Americans are some âotherâ detached from the fabric of American history is morally and empirically wrong. This has been true since the birth of our nation, when Crispus Attucks, a Massachusetts dock worker of African and Native American descent, was the first man killed in the Boston Massacre and thus the first person to give his life for the American Revolution.