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One of the writers for The Root is doing a "Drive Black, Buy Black" road trip from LA to the Roanoake VA plantation where Booker T Washington was a slave. Along the way he is (stopping at black-owned restaurants, gas stations, and visiting attractions from the 1957 Negro Motorists Green Book (the year his mother moved from Dallas to LA. theroot.com/drive-black-buy-bl

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