When he lived in a week cell, so thank you all for being here. So black lives matter its a centuriesold cry of the dogged plea over farflung people is what was conveyed to Thomas Jefferson in 1791 when a council quote it is the indispensable duty of those who maintained for themselves the rights of human nature to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the union race. Its what inspired my research into the story of ota benga who in 1906 garner global headlines after he was exhibited in the bronx zoo monkey house at times with an orangutan. But why some ask would a disgrace african who did not leave behind any records nor perform any remarkable feats merit a biography. When i began my research five years ago i could not know that some would see his life as a metaphor for black lives today. But i somehow knew that his story mattered that how he came to be so monumentally degraded in a worldclass city at the dawn of the 20th century during the progressive era matt
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