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Systemic Racism

Opinion: ‘Systemic Racism Does Indeed Exist’

Posted on December 14, 2020

Outrage. Pain. Exhaustion. LaVar Charleston MS’07, PhD’10 went through an emotional wringer in May when he learned of George Floyd’s death under a Minneapolis police officer’s knee. For an African American man, the scenario felt chillingly familiar. “If …

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