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Black Leaders Upset Slave Song Is Used As Sports Chant

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall Several black leaders spoke out against an English rugby team using the slave song “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” as a chant, according to Monday reports. Cornell Brooks, the NAACP president, called the rugby team’s use of the song “a slap in the face to the history of slavery,”…