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On the recordOctober 27, 2016
It helps stretch our moral imaginations to embrace the Latino farmworker, or the LGBT kid who is feeling ostracized, or the woman who is hitting the glass ceiling.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates

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