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Deborah Berry

Washington, D.C.
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National correspondent for USA TODAY covering civil rights, voting rights, politics. Class of 23 Nieman Fellow, @UofMaryland grad, @washpressclub bd president
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Haitians facing 'hard situation' as Trump administration tries to end legal status early

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By Deborah Berry
| Yahoo Canada Verified
L. got a call one recent Friday from a friend, desperate to talk and pleading to meet. She hesitated. She hardly ventures out anymore. That evening she risked it and for two hours shared slices of cheese pizza and worries. Both are Haitian immigrants whose temporary legal status in the United States is set to expire soon. Like many Haitians living in America, neither L.
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Actor Djimon Hounsou hopes Black history run becomes pilgrimage for African Americans

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By Deborah Berry
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HAMPTON, Virginia ‒ As a child, Djimon Hounsou played soccer on the beaches of his native Benin, a small country in West Africa. He didn't know then that those same beaches had been a “path of no return” for those led centuries ago to waiting slave ships. It wasn’t until the award-winning actor starred in Steven Spielberg’s “Amistad,” a 1997 movie about a rebellion on a slave ship, that he fully understood the tragic history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its lasting impact.
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'We will not let our history be erased:' Civil Rights vets share lessons with educators

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By Deborah Berry
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WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a different path. This summer, during a conference break, she typed furiously on a syllabus for a course she's teaching this fall on women in the Civil Rights Movement. “This is the time that students want to learn about the Civil Rights Movement.
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