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'Freedom To Really Fulfill My Life'
https://www.vpr.org/vpr-news/2021-07-16/freedom-to-really-fulfill-my-life-a-first-time-homeowner-reflects-on-art-race-the-stars-in-the-nek"Fewer than 2% of Vermont residents are Black or African American. Of that fraction, less than a quarter of households own homes.
Poet and musician Toussaint St. Negritude recently became a landowner in Caledonia County, thanks to a handful of volunteer carpenters and over $60,000 donated to him as reparations.
Toussaint St. Negritude sits down at his desk. He is tall, with a white beard, a gentle smile, and a hat perched on his head. Lumps of turquoise dangle from his ears. He rummages in a drawer for a blank piece of paper, which he inserts into the typewriter. He types out a sentence......"
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