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This weekend marked the 50th anniversary of the deaths of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, the three civil rights workers murdered by a lynch mob near Philadelphia, Mississippi, while registering voters during Freedom Summer 1964. Chaney, 21 at the time of his death, was an African American and a Mississippi native. Goodman and…
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Opinion Music for the 9th of Av: On Jerusalem, Exile and Homelessness
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