August 3, 2016: Stop Policing Communities Where Only Color Matters
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August 18, 2016: Ethics Rules: Term Limits Will Never Be Enough
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August 19, 2016: Worst Reason to Vote for Trump is Also the Best
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August 25, 2016: Minorities Special Needs are Your Problem
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5. Ibid., p. 9.
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Picture credit: Official White House Photo by Dave Lienemann. Sutton, Nikki. “President Obama at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Dedication: “We Will Overcome.” The White House. October 16, 2011. https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/10/16/president-obama-martin-luther-king-jr-memorial-dedication-we-will-overcome, retrieved August 28, 2016.