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‘The beast is dead. Nazi Germany killed these people. Rhode Island made a commitment to treat them with dignity and respect’

Filmmaker and historian Claire Andrade-Watkins and her team are preserving the Cape Verdean legacy in Rhode Island through storytelling, community advocacy, and a groundbreaking project on the historic Sheldon Street Church
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‘It’s not just that this is a history. It’s a legacy that we need to reckon with’
‘The real goal was to take the land. If they couldn’t exterminate us through genocide and warfare, they were going to exterminate us through forced assimilation’