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Bethesda, Maryland Desecrates Black Bodies and History
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
08 Jun 2021
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Margaret Kimberley · Bethesda, Maryland Desecrates Black Bodies and History

"I’m describing crimes against humanity,” said Dr Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, a leader of the fight to save Moses Macedonia African Cemetery from further destruction by developers. The older section of the cemetery was “looted” of artifacts, while the post-Emancipation section has been paved over for a parking lot. Bethesda, a suburb of Washington, DC, and one of the richest localities in the nation, wants to obliterate evidence of its past as a “slave breeding” state where young Black girls were subjected to “sexual torture,” said Dr. Coleman-Adebayo, a founder of the No Fear Coalition.

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