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How should the community respond to the Stop WOKE Act?

Gwendolyn Reese, president of the AAHA, Bridgette Heller, founder and CEO of the Shirley Proctor Fuller Foundation, Dr. Evelyn Newman-Phillips, chair of the Anthropology Department at Central Connecticut State University, State Rep. Michele Rayner Goolsby, Author Pia Jordan BY FRANK DROUZAS, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG - This month’s installment of Community Conversations - a partnership […]

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