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Thx HighJive! “The award-winning author of “A Wreath for Emmett Till”…said Wednesday it was “unconscionable” that a planned presentation of the work by students at a Los Angeles charter school sparked the firing of two teachers.”
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Thx Geraly! “She remembers seeing “No Filipinos or dogs allowed” signs posted at restaurants and having to wear a button that said “I am a loyal Filipino” during World War II, because even though she didn’t look Japanese, she was still Asian — and vulner
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Thx Sylvia! “The competition she ran into, however, wasn’t Bally or Gold’s or 24 Hour Fitness. Instead, her greatest competition came from attitudes about exercise and diet from the people she wanted for her clients: black women.”
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Thx nsekuye! “I’ve been doing Lyla’s hair since she has had enough hair to do, receiving my first lessons from my wife and subjecting Lyla to my continued training by my sister, mother-in-law and other female relatives.”
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Thx Kyla! “The Holts also claim the state and county discriminated against them in treating them with less care than the white residents with similarly contaminated water.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of