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Re:Defining Black History

stateofthereunion.com

This Sunday, February 1 at 7 p.m. join WRVO for a State of the Re:Union special on black history. Re:Defining Black History is just one in a series of specials for Black History Month heard each Sunday.

During a month selected to celebrate "history," we certainly are treated to a lot of the same familiar stories: the battles won for Civil Rights, the glory of Martin Luther King Jr.'s words, the hardships endured by slaves. And as important as those narratives are for us to collectively remember, many others get lost in trumpeting the same heroic tales.

This Sunday, State of the Re:Union zeroes in on some of those alternative narratives, ones edited out of mainstream imagining of black history, deconstructing the popular perception of certain celebrated moments.