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Here's how history is shaping the #studentblackout movement

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imageStudents across campuses are protesting against racial injustice.Max Goldberg, CC BY

Students are protesting over racism across campuses in the United States. We asked Marshall Ganz, who dropped out of Harvard as an undergraduate to be an organizer in 1964 and now teaches organizing and leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, to discuss the...

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