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Indiana Basketball Player Broke Racial Barrier, Changed Game Forever

By Zak Keefer — 2007

Clarence Walker quietly broke the color barrier, wading through a thicket of unforgiving racial tensions along the way, bottling up his private pain for the greater good. He never fired back. He couldn’t.

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Basketball Legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Is Helping to Teach STEM Skills to Black and Latino Students

For more than a decade, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been focused on introducing underserved students to a STEM education, which is science, technology, engineering and math.

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Michelle Fox
2021
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Does My Wheelchair Make You Uncomfortable? How My Disability May Have Cost Me a Job.

I’m a tenured, deeply qualified New York City teacher, but some only see my disability. At least my students know the impact I can make in the world.

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Dayniah Manderson
2018
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How the Immigrant Experience Shapes What I Teach My Children

I know that my biracial children will experience racism, sexism and intolerance. But I want them to be bold enough to not push people away and instead seek to understand through education. This is how we bring radical change through our children.

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Smita Malhotra
2017
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