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Dear Adult Leaders: Black Students’ Disadvantage Isn’t Just in the Achievement Gap. Give Them an Equal Chance to Take Advanced Courses

Ava President recites a poem on the objectification and adultification of young Black women at an awards ceremony for a program she completed through a historically Black sorority. (Photo courtesy of Ava President)

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December 20, 2020

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