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Issue #914 Today In Black History, Monday, August 25, 2025

Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old wife, mother, and sharecropper, was born on December 31, 1919, in Abbeville, Alabama. On September 3, 1944, as she was walking home from church, she was abducted and brutally raped by six white men.