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Day: February 26, 2020

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February 26, 2020 HLCC-admin1

Law Professor & Author Mehrsa Baradaran speaks at Empowerwest City Wide Book Read

Louisville, KY—Keynote speaker is Mehrsa Baradaran, professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine and author of “The Color

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February 26, 2020 HLCC-admin1

True Reparations Are a National Debt: Localities and Individuals Should Not Foot the Bill and Cannot Build Systemic Remedies Alone (Roosevelt Institute)

BY WILLIAM “SANDY” DARITY , A. KIRSTEN MULLEN (Excerpt) So, who should pay the bill? In From Here to Equality, we argue that

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