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Times Regrets ‘Slave Mistress’ in Julian Bond’s Obituary

(New York Times) – After Julian Bond’s death on Saturday, The Times published a lengthy and well-written obituary summing up the life and work of the civil rights champion. But many readers were bothered by a single sentence in the front-page article: “Julian Bond’s great-grandmother Jane Bond was the slave mistress of a Kentucky farmer.” Many readers […]

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