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Toni Morrison's works spoke to a generation of us
As a little black girl who didn't always want to be black, Toni Morrison at once understood me and shamed me.
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She started teaching at Texas Southern University in 1955 and then became an editor at Random House in 1963. She edited the work of authors …
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on 2019 PDK Poll Measuring the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools
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