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Lee Hawkins

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Journalist, Musician & Author of Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free. (HarperCollins 2025) Order here: rb.gy/waplmg

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Essay | What I Owe My Murdered, Nameless Cousin

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By Lee Hawkins
| The Wall Street Journal
One afternoon in October 2024, the FBI contacted me about a relative I never knew existed. The agent explained that a DNA test I’d taken for genealogical research had matched an unidentified woman whose body had been discovered near Cleveland in 1983. The case was dormant, the woman nameless. Though I’ve spent years building our family tree across four centuries, I’d never heard of any relative who simply vanished—never to be seen or spoken of again.
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Writer Lee Hawkins connects abusive childhood in Minnesota to the Jim Crow South and slavery

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By Lee Hawkins
| Kansas City Star
Although "I Am Nobody's Slave" takes the form of a memoir, Minnesota native Lee Hawkins' book becomes something bigger: an examination of where violence in Black homes originates and a plea to end corporal punishment. Hawkins spoke last year with the Minnesota Star Tribune's Laura Yuen about the horrific abuse he suffered, at the hands of both parents, when he was growing up in Maplewood.
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2024 will be a big year for the reparations debate in California

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By Lee Hawkins, Alex Schroeder 
| KPBS-TV (San Diego, CA)
This is part one of the Marketplace series "Golden Promises." Read part two and part three. With 2024 here, California lawmakers are set for an intense debate about economic reparations for Black residents descended from enslaved ancestors. In 2020, California became the first state . In June, that task force issued a nearly 1,100-page report for the state legislature to take up. Sen.
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