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Jan 2024
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Best books of 2023, MLK's legacy

Wisconsin Public Radio
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We talk to two representatives from Wisconsin independent booksellers about their favorite books of 2023. Then, an African American studies professor joins us to discuss why Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy is often sanitized and what we lose when that happens. 
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