<description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, series creator and co-editor Juleyka Lantigua, shares a deeply personal and relevant story. While driving through her neighborhood, she notices that street signs have been changed and decides to research the new name, Josiah Henson. She discovers that Josiah Henson was an influential figure in Black history, born into slavery in Maryland, and brought to the plantation that her then home stood on. This realization shakes her to the core as it confronts the tendency to treat slavery as a distant and irrelevant past.&lt;/p&gt;
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Still Paying the Price: Reparations in Real Terms

[email protected] (Paulina Velasco, Juleyka Lantigua, Pamela Kirkland, Amanda DeJesus, Kojin Tashiro, Michelle Baker)

EP 11: How I Learned My House Was Built on a Former Plantation

JUL 24, 20238 MIN
Still Paying the Price: Reparations in Real Terms

EP 11: How I Learned My House Was Built on a Former Plantation

JUL 24, 20238 MIN

Description

In this episode, series creator and co-editor Juleyka Lantigua, shares a deeply personal and relevant story. While driving through her neighborhood, she notices that street signs have been changed and decides to research the new name, Josiah Henson. She discovers that Josiah Henson was an influential figure in Black history, born into slavery in Maryland, and brought to the plantation that her then home stood on. This realization shakes her to the core as it confronts the tendency to treat slavery as a distant and irrelevant past.