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Toolkit for "Segregation Forever?"
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LGBTQ Historical Figures The erasure of LGBTQ figures from our history books and classrooms does a disservice to students on three fronts: 1) It introduces bias into our studies, providing an incomplete and unfair
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Music Reconstructed: Jason Moran, Jazz and the Harlem Hellfighters
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