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The weight of being ‘the first’
There's no great joy in being the first African American president, says Dwight McBride of the New School. It's a reminder of how much progress still needs to be made.
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‘We need it’: How one custodian is fighting fear to get a pay raise at U. of Southern Mississippi
Janice Jones makes about $10 an hour, the lowest wage on campus.
