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Burgess Owens: “This is the next civil rights. We need to make sure our kids are thinking, particularly black kids.”

On the recordJune 23, 2021
This is the next civil rights. We need to make sure our kids are thinking, particularly black kids.
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Burgess Owens
Republican · Utah

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Owens highlights education as a civil rights issue affecting black children.

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