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College of Charleston Remains Focused on Efforts to Improve Diversity, Inclusion

By Amanda Kerr It’s been an unprecedented time in the Holy City and around the United States as people of all ages and races have taken to the streets in recent days to fight for social justice following the death of George Floyd, a black man, as a result of a forceful arrest by Minneapolis

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