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June 16, 2017 11:15 am PDT
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Melissa del Bosque, Ta-Nehisi Coates & co: "Cigarette cards" for muckraking journalists
Dave Maass writes, "In the 1890s, a tobacco company included collectors cards featuring 'American Editors' in its cigarette packs. In all, they were 49 white dudes and one woman, and the only diversity was in their beards and mustaches." (more…)
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