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There’s no reason it should be this hard to enforce ones around the coronavirus. The students received support from the NAACP and other groups. The fifteen year old boarded a segregated, city bus on her way home from school, her mind filled with what she'd been learning during Negro History Week. On today’s show, we’ll look at what both letters symbolize. Our Women and Girls Campaign Associate Jenna Barnett attended the gathering to learn what role faith played in this Convention. Hard questions and life lessons in the wilderness. Rumaan Alam's thrilling novel is about race, class and self-delusion. As a parent, this is one of the most rewarding things that could happen, you know, to a parent, to see their child display all of the morals and values that you instill in them from very young.