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	<title>The Living Consequences &#187; Byron Rushing</title>
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		<title>Hearing held on Massachusetts slavery-era disclosure law</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I previewed last month, the Massachusetts state legislature held a hearing yesterday on state representative Byron Rushing&#8217;s proposed slavery-era disclosure law.
Update: Governor Deval Patrick has commented that while he hasn&#8217;t read the bill, he agrees that &#8220;we have some unfinished work about some injustices that goes back generations.&#8221;
H 3148 would make Massachusetts the fifth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing set for Massachusetts slavery-era disclosure law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, I wrote about Massachusetts State Representative Byron Rushing&#8217;s proposed slavery-era disclosure law. At that time, I indicated that Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts &#38; Cultural Development should hold a public hearing later in the year.
The committee has now scheduled a public hearing for Monday, October 5 at 1:00pm at which testimony will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts considers slavery-era disclosure law</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts state representative Byron Rushing has re-introduced his slavery-era disclosure law, &#8220;An Act Relative to the History of Slavery in the Commonwealth.&#8221;
Rushing&#8217;s bill would require companies doing business with the state to research and report their connections to slavery (and those of any predecessor companies) prior to 1889. The secretary of state, in turn, would [...]]]></description>
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