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Let’s Talk Black Education

When we were kids, my dad would take us to football games at the University of Southern California (USC). I didn’t care much for football, but I loved it when we’d stay after the game to hear the USC marching band play. His love for marching bands is why we have a drumline at the public charter school I founded and named after my parents — Rex and Margaret Fortune Early College High School.

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1968

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5

1974

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14

1940

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6

1973

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30

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Sharon J. Barnes, Chemist at Dow Chemical

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1948

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1966

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15

1850

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1975

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1959

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1969

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