Pastor Arthur L. Mackey Jr., speaking to his 18-year-old self, recalls the important advice a history teacher gave him as a teenager -- "Black history is American history" -- and how it would come to change his worldview and influence him later in life. Credit: Newsday / Yeong-Ung Yang

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