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New Jersey is taking a bold step toward healing by introducing a groundbreaking bill to confront its hidden past: over half the state’s residents don’t know slavery existed there. The “Truth, Reconciliation, and Repair Act” seeks to formally apologize for centuries of oppression and outline concrete steps to address ongoing racial disparities, especially in the African American community. As the last Northern state to abolish slavery in 1866, New Jersey’s reckoning is both timely and necessary — and the bill is now moving through committee with strong momentum to bring long-overdue justice and education to the forefront.

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