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excavate

verb as in dig up

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Her pieces on two books, “Black England” and “Black Manhattan,” excavate hidden histories of Black resistance and the painful compromises brokered to move forward.

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A few historians have excavated rights in the Middle Ages.

Robert W. Fieseler is a journalist investigating marginalized groups and a scholar excavating forgotten histories.

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He didn’t just co-write this tale of two estranged brothers excavating their complicated history — he imbues it with his essence, its reason for being.

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Some may see his truth as a superficial one, but it’s a truth nonetheless, and it’s when he decides to excavate it onscreen that “Jay Kelly” rises above its more shallow, glitzy trappings.

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