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Nov 2023
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My Coming of Agency Moment: Staying in M...

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Ian Rowe took full responsibility for what he believed was right. He sized up the assumption that his public school becoming all black in one year would make it worse - and committed 100% to staying there to make it the very best.

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