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How a poet and professor promotes racial understanding with lessons from history

  • Written by Quraysh Ali Lansana, Lecturer in Africana Studies and English, Oklahoma State University
How a poet and professor promotes racial understanding with lessons from historyGaining a deeper understanding of our shared history can allow for healing.Terry Vine/The Image Bank via Getty Images

Quraysh Ali Lansana is the director of the Center for Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa, part of a nationwide, community-based initiative to “plan for and bring about...

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