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Slavery billboard lasts less than a day


HARRISBURG, PA. (RNS)

The billboard is down, but the issue’s not gone.

A billboard erected in a racially diverse neighborhood in Harrisburg featured an African slave with the biblical quote, “Slaves, obey your masters.” It lasted less than a day before someone tore it down.

Now, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission is investigating and is meeting with both the atheists who sponsored it and leaders of the NAACP who found it...

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