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Members of Boston’s black community are taking their quest to force white people to pay them reparations for slavery in a new direction by confronting churches and claiming they need to pay up for past slights. Community organizers in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood called a news conference at the Resurrection Lutheran Church to blast churches over the trans-Atlantic slave trade that ended more than two hundred years ago for a practice that cost America more than 600,000 deaths by the end of our Civil War, according to the Boston Globe. The leaders are calling on “white churches” to pony up and …

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