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Sandhya Dirks

1 side owned slaves. The other side started Black History Month. How a family heals

The Woodson family members at the Woodson reconciliation ceremony in 1998. (Courtesy of Craig Woodson)

"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history." — Carter G. Woodson

There are many things from childhood that Brett Woodson Bailey doesn't remember. Maybe it has to do with his cancer diagnosis at 4-years-old, living in the hospital for almost two years, undergoing intense courses of radiation and chemotherapy. He thinks that plays a part in why so much of his childhood is "hazy."

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