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Student Finds Voice Amid Bias — The Sacramento Observer

Monet Cook is heading to Howard University, but her high school experience isn’t one she’ll soon forget. The 18-year-old is among a group of girls talking about racism they experienced as students at St. Francis, a local Catholic private, college preparatory school near Sacramento State. It was at the school, she says, that she often […]

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