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  "id": 899500,
  "title": "How Americans deceive ourselves about slavery",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/how-americans-deceive-ourselves-about-slavery",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-14T18:13:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "NPR",
    "slug": "npr",
    "url": "https://www.npr.org/2026/08/14/nx-s1-5928227/how-americans-deceive-ourselves-about-slavery"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Clint Smith's How the Word Is Passed explores how slavery is — and isn't — taught. And Above Ground includes poems to his children about what their ancestors endured and escaped. He spoke with Fresh Air in 2021 and 2023.",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}