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‘Hate Spaces,’ a film about intolerance on campus

Jacobs, a Harvard PhD, will not tell me how old he is. His wife forbids it. He does say he was present at Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech (1963). He also will not tell me where he lives within the greater Boston area. Too many threats against him to publicize his address, he says. He does tell me this: He is most known for liberating tens of thousands of slaves. Slaves? Wasn’t that Abraham Lincoln, not Charles Jacobs? Wasn’t slavery over and done with some 100 years before MLK’s “I have a dream”? Actually, not. “I’m most known for my work against slavery in Sudan. Black Africans enslaved by Arab Muslims in Africa,” Jacobs says in a telephone interview this week. “I […]
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