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Black teenager shot by white cop: The play ‘Scraps’ for home viewing
June 9, 2020In a provocative mash-up of poetry, realism, and expressionism, Scraps boldly chronicles how the family and friends of a black teenager shot by a white police officer struggle to cope in the aftermath.
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Keep marching: From streets to voting booth and back again
June 9, 2020Racist police violence, global pandemic, and a COVID-sparked economic crisis—November 2020 will be an election like no other.
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Teen students lead Nashville’s largest ever protest against racist police violence
June 8, 2020Organized by five teens: Nya Collins, Jade Fuller, Kennedy Green, Zee Thomas, and Emma Rose Smith. All 14 to 16, four African American and one white, and all female.
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Charles Dickens put ordinary people at the heart of the story
June 8, 2020Dickens never forgot how his father was imprisoned for debts and that the financial circumstances of his family forced him to leave school at the age of 12 and work a 10-hour day in a blackening...
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Protesting in Phoenix for Dion Johnson, another Black man killed by police
June 8, 2020Officials ignore the cause of local anger: the killing of a Black man asleep in his car by a police officer on the same night George Floyd was killed.
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