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Bettye Kearse is the author of the strongly reviewed memoir The Other Madisons: The Lost History of A President's Black Family(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 2020). She is a descendant of a slave and President James Madison. Her essays, commentaries, and personal narratives have appeared in the Boston Herald, River Teeth, Image Makers and Influencers, Zora, TIME Magazine, and Black Lives Have Always Mattered (2Leaf Press, 2017).
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Saturday, August 22, 2020The 1787 Constitutional Convention and the 2020 Murder of George Floyd Four clauses in the Constitution make explicit the notion that slaves-and their descendants-are marginal, lesser, and dangerous. These clauses have contributed to more than two centuries of police brutality towards slave descendants and include the 2020 murder of George Floyd.
