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Jim Crow’s creator, Thomas D. Rice, is buried in Brooklyn. But his blackface legacy just won’t die.

November 6 | Elizabeth Kuster, Photos by John McCarten

Popular early-1800s entertainer Thomas D. Rice didn’t invent blackface, but...

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    Doreen Wade from Cambridge raises her fist in the air at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common on Saturday, April 26, 2025, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally on Boston Common which featured Martin Luther King Jr. She was six years old when she marched with her family in 1965.
    Photo: John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via AP
    San Francisco Giants' Heliot Ramos scores the game-winning run on a throwing error Texas Rangers first baseman Jake Burger during the ninth inning of a baseball game Sunday, April 27, 2025, in San Francisco.
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    A vendor sit at her shop, during a major power outage in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, April 28, 2025.
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    Liberal Leader Mark Carney takes a moment after lighting a candle at a memorial for victims after a vehicle drove into a crowd during a Filipino heritage festival in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday, April 27, 2025.
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    Fans cheer as the Los Angeles Kings and the Edmonton Oilers prepare for an NHL playoff hockey game in Edmonton, Alberta, Sunday, April 27, 2025.
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    Indiana Pacers' Myles Turner (33) reacts after dunking over Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo during the second half of Game 4 of a first-round NBA basketball playoff series Sunday, April 27, 2025, in Milwaukee.
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    President Donald Trump, left, walks with Philadelphia Eagles football player Saquon Barkley before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport, Sunday, April 27, 2025, in Morristown, N.J.
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    Men dressed in traditional clothes try to pull the opponent over the table at the German Championships in Fingerhakeln or finger wrestling, in Pang, near Rosenheim, Germany, Sunday, April 27, 2025.
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