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By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated November 9, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
When Cheryl McKissack Daniel walks into any boardroom and realizes she’s the only Black woman there (which happens more often than it should in 2025) she thinks about her great-great-great grandfather Moses.
For those unfamiliar, Moses was stolen from West Africa in 1790 and brought to America enslaved. He learned construction and masonry because he had to, and passed
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