If someone was caught, and murdered, scraps of their body were circulated as souvenirs and passed down through generations of white families as heirlooms.
Colleen keeps a curio cabinet full of mementos of a baby loved in her all too short life and beyond.
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Edie Kasten,
CBS News,
6 June 2026
Along with recordings, researchers returned with family Bibles, good china, and valuable mementos, including a porcelain pin box given to a Black seamstress by First Lady Edith Wilson.
Such declarations mean little to devotees like Marta Azcona, proprietor of Botanica La Fe a la Santísima Muerte in Fort Worth, Texas, whose shop is a warren of Santa Muerte statues, candles, bracelets and figurines.
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Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
7 June 2026
Mattel's Masters of the Universe figurines launched a popular 1980s cartoon series and 1987 feature film starring Dolph Lundgren as He-Man.
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