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Maria and Julio take on the national conversation about racist Confederate monuments and the push to take them down. They talk with\\xa0Dr. Keisha Blain, an author and associate professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, and\\xa0Rebecca Keel, the Virginia Statewide Organizer with\\xa0Southerners on New Ground\\xa0(or SONG), about what it means to be honest about our country\\u2019s racist past and to reimagine how it is taught and remembered. ITT Staff Picks:\\xa0 - Keisha Blain writes that destroying Confederate monuments isn\'t \'erasing\' history, but learning from it,\\xa0in this piece for The Washington Post.\\xa0 - "The work of the people is what endures. It\\u2019s unromantic work, done in small increments, sometimes just as a blueprint for whatever future movements might arise, and it\\u2019s more precious than any bronzed monument or seal or city name," writes\\xa0Hanif Abdurraqib in this piece for The New Yorker. - In this piece for Latino Rebels,\\xa0Nicholas Belardes, a dual-ethnic Chicano writer based in San Luis Obispo, California, writes about a predominantly Latino community\'s\\xa0journey of grappling with the Confederate monuments in its vicinity.\\xa0 Photo credit: Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP, File \\xa0

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