Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents’ then-illegal and interracial marriage. — Natasha Trethewey

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Mini who’s who:

Natasha Trethewey : American Poet
Born:  April 26, 1966