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Sep 2020
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Protests and the Pandemic with Michele N...

Higher Ground
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Award-winning journalist Michele Norris joins Michelle to discuss how we can gain new understandings of ourselves during an international pandemic and national reckoning with race. Find the episode transcript here: http://spoti.fi/TMOP_transcripts   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do ... Show More
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