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Joining Juneteenth to reparations

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By Deborah Bayliss
| Forest Park Review Verified
From an early age, U.S. Cong. Danny K. Davis encountered the same historical forces that Juneteenth invites the nation to remember and confront. At 8 years old, in 1949, Davis began picking and chopping cotton in the sweltering fields of Parkdale, Arkansas, moving in step with his parents and neighbors dragging overstuffed burlap sacks down endless rows managing labor that carried the unmistakable echo of chattel slavery’s brutal legacy. “My parents were sharecroppers,” Davis said.
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Joining Juneteenth to reparations

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By Deborah Bayliss
| Austin Weekly News Verified
Congressman Danny Davis official picture. (FILE PHOTO) From an early age, U.S. Cong. Danny K. Davis encountered the same historical forces that Juneteenth invites the nation to remember and confront. At eight years old, in 1949, Davis began picking and chopping cotton in the sweltering fields of Parkdale, Arkansas, moving in step with his parents and neighbors dragging overstuffed burlap sacks down endless rows managing labor that carried the unmistakable echo of chattel slavery’s brutal legacy.
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Guided by the blues god

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By Deborah Bayliss
| Austin Weekly News Verified
Blues singer Katherine Davis sits for a portrait in her home surrounded by family photographs and personal archives in Chicago on Tuesday, May 20, 2026. (Kenn Cook Jr.) Hearing blues singer, songwriter, and recording artist Katherine Davis credit the ‘blues gods’ with whispering her forward through the twists and triumphs of her long career, one can feel the magic in her story. Before Davis was born, her family moved from Hattiesburg, Mississippi to Chicago in 1913 for reasons of safety.
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