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Snowfall was inevitable. With the blustery breeze and wicked wind of the winter season punishing the streets of Parkchester, three brave workers, commonly referred to as the most essential, exited their place of work, the Step In Diner. Since this

Picture yourself seated in a graduate school classroom listening to a professor at the predominantly white institution proclaim, “Poor black children don’t have books in their homes.” As if I were being pranked, I immediately scanned the room for allies /