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The Enduring Impact of Slavery

October 13, 2019 • Detroit Book Review • Season 1 • Episode 3

Award winning, former Detroit Free Press columnist, Rochelle Riley discusses "The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery," a compilation of essays she edited and to which she contributed. Riley talks with Janet Webster Jones, the owner of Source Booksellers about the book and "Letters to Black Girls" an organization Riley co-founded.