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“Nobody’s born racist; we all found it.” Christian Picciolini, a former neo-Nazi punk rock musician turned American author, public speaker…
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It’s May 2017, and love is in the air. Rachel Linsay, a 32-year-old African-American female attorney from Texas is on…
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