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  1. Melissa Lowery on the impact of her movie, “Black Girl in Suburbia”

    Film could help her daughters navigate growing up as some of the few people of color in their community in Hillsboro In 2010, Melissa Lowery set out to create a film — her first feature-length film — that could serve as a guidebook for her two daughters. ...

    18 Feb 2015 - Sarah Hansell

  2. Lessons in meritocracy: Civil rights attorney Lani Guinier on the failure of higher education

    Americans are a competitive lot, and that can have its advantages, but not necessarily when it comes to educating a generation that will need to collaborate in order to solve our intractable problems. That’s the perspective of civil rights attorney and Ha ...

    18 Feb 2015 - Jared Paben

  3. Foot soldiers of the Civil Rights era, past and present

    History is written by the victors.” At least, that’s what a famous quote tells us. Trouble is, there’s no real agreement on who spoke or wrote those words. Maybe it was Niccolò Machiavelli, author of the 16th-century work of political philosophy, “The Pri ...

    3 Feb 2015 - Rosette Royale

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