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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty six marks the one hundredth anniversary of Black

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Speaker 1: History Month.

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Speaker 2: One hundred years of intentional remembering.

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Speaker 1: Willie Roderick the second is the senior pastor of the

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Speaker 1: twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury.

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Speaker 3: One hundred years of sacred reflection, one hundred years of

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Speaker 3: people refusing to let the world write the story about us.

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Speaker 1: He says, after all these years, the month is as

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Speaker 1: important now as ever.

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Speaker 4: Their forces in this country trying to erase the truth.

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Speaker 4: Forces that are trying to silence our stories, ban our books,

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Speaker 4: attack our culture. They don't want to just control policy,

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Speaker 4: they want to control memory.

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Speaker 1: Boston may Or Michelle Wu ended the event by officially

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Speaker 1: proclaiming February to be Black History Month in Boston. Jeremy

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Speaker 1: Russ WBZ, Boston's news radio