School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration.
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As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints.
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Photography, sculpture, and painting were wielded as cultural weapons over the course of generations to substantiate the idea that black people were inherently subordinate beings; they were used to make slavery acceptable and to make black subjugation more palatable.
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The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.
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Who has to have a soapbox when all you've ever needed is your voice?
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The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader, more universal truth.
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