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T h e i n d e p e n d e n t s t ude nt ne w spap e r of t he U niversity of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | april 13, 2022 ­| Volume 112 | Issue 88

STANDOUTS, STRUGGLES IN FOOTBALL SPRING GAME Dalton Coppola

Assistant Sports Editor For the first time since 2016, when Kenny Pickett was a first-year, Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi has a true quarterback controversy on his hands.

Rising senior quarterbacks Nick Patti and Kedon Slovis are both vying for the starting spot, and went head-to-head last Saturday in the BlueGold Game. Narduzzi usually keeps his cards close to his chest, and it was no different after the Spring Game.

“It’s hard to tell with mish-mosh receivers, not having the normal weapons for either one of them,” Narduzzi said. “We’ll go back and look at Students enjoy the weather by the Frick Fountain. Amaya Lobato staff photographer the tape.”

For anyone in attendance, it wasn’t hard to see which of the two looked more natural under center — and it didn’t take long either.

Patti, on the first play of the game, uncorked a pass to sophomore receiver Konata Mumpfield. Alexandra Ross munity.” ing very much unless we come together,” Davis Patti did his best Pickett impression and rolled out Senior Staff Writer Davis spoke at a Monday night webinar said. “And there's oftentimes the assumption that to his right, set his feet and fired a dart, hitting his Courage does not just come from within, ac- hosted by Pitt’s Black Action Society. The event when we come together, when we unite, that we target in stride on a post pattern. This was a play consisted of an interview between Davis and have to figure out how to unite across our differcording to Angela Davis.

Pitt had a great deal of success running last year, “I think that individual courage is a myth,” BAS President Destiny Mann, as well as an audi- ences … And we hear this so much that it never and Patti executed it with ease.

Davis said. “Many people assume that courage is ence Q&A session. Throughout the event, Davis occurs to us that maybe we should unite with our While completing just four passes on nine atpurely internal, but I believe that it comes from emphasized a need for collective action in fight- differences — that maybe those differences can tempts, Patti looked comfortable running the ofing for social justice.

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Pitt professor Tymofiy Mylovanov helps Ukraine ‘move into the future’ Alexandra Ross Senior Staff Writer

Tymofiy Mylovanov sat in a basement in western Ukraine, surrounded by friends and business colleagues all laughing, talking and playing the board game Backgammon.

Above them, air raid sirens rang out in the streets.

“Now there’s some siren or something, so we all have to go to a basement,” Mylovanov said.

“They're playing a game. I like this game. I'm not very good at it. … You have to play — you have to do something, you know.”

Mylovanov, an associate professor of economics at Pitt, returned to Ukraine mere days before the February invasion by Russia. He continued to teach classes for a few weeks, and though he has since stopped, Mylovanov said he visited his classes to answer student questions.

A native of Ukraine, he received his master’s of arts in economics from the Kyiv School of Economics — where he now serves as president — in 1999. After getting his doctorate in economics from the University of Wisconsin in 2004, Mylovanov taught at Penn State, the University of Bonn and the University of Pennsylvania before arriving at Pitt.

He served as deputy board chair for the National Bank of Ukraine from 2016 until 2019, when he became Ukraine’s minister of economic development, trade and agriculture. While he hasn’t served in that role since 2020, Mylovanov continues to advise Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on economic policy.

As a professor at Pitt, Mylovanov specializes in microeconomics — especially in game theory, contract theory and institutional design.

According to Jennifer Murtazashvili, an associate professor in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity in 2014 “changed everything” for Mylovanov, and his interests moved from the theoretical to the political.

“He realized, I think, like many Ukrainians, that this was a unique opportunity — that there had been a revolution in 2006 and it went backwards, which led to the revolution in 2014, and if Ukrainians didn't take this into their own hands, they would lose,” Murtazashvili said.

Mylovanov co-founded VoxUkraine — a platform dedicated to fact-checking and analy-

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sis of Ukrainian politics, reforms and movements — in 2014. It began as a platform for op-eds, with the fact-checking element coming later. The goal of VoxUkraine, according to the website, is to raise the level of economic discussion in Ukraine and “help Ukraine move into the future.”

Mylovanov said while people can try to describe it in words, the only way to truly understand what it is like to live in Ukraine during the war is to experience it.

“It’s like … to be in a storm, you know, or

nov said he hopes to know by August if he will be able to return to Pitt for the fall semester.

Prior to his departure for Ukraine, Mylovanov taught the capstone seminar course in international economics this semester with Svitlana Maksymenko. Maksymenko, a senior lecturer in the economics department, said it was interesting to see Mylovanov lecture and interact with students, and that his teaching methods are very “student-oriented.”

“His ability to be engaging, being funny, [his ability to] relate some extremely complicated

Timofiy Mylovanov, an associate professor of economics at Pitt.

Image via Pittwire to give birth to a child, or to, you know, to lose a parent,” Mylovanov said. “You can explain all you want, but until you experience it, it’s really difficult … Until you do it, you don’t understand it.”

Despite all the things he said he has seen and heard in Ukraine, Mylovanov said the country is still “operational,” just working under a “new normal.”

“It's awful, and it's also normal,” Mylovanov said. “People try to go to movie theaters, where they are available, and worry that they [will] get hit by a ballistic missile whilst there, you know, and it's part of life.”

Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 are currently banned from leaving the country, and Mylova-

things in the real world to, I don’t know, something that everyone understands based on the household level, so that’s a feature of Tymofiy,” Maksymenko said.

According to Maksymenko, she and Mylovanov collaborated to create a study abroad program which would send Pitt students to study at the Kyiv School of Economics, but the program has been delayed because of the conflict in Crimea, the COVID-19 pandemic and now the war.

“The syllabus is developed, the program was developed, so now hopefully after the war, I will run this study abroad program in collaboration with Kyiv School of Economics,” Maksymenko said.

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According to Murtazashvili, who directs Pitt’s Center for Governance and Markets, the Kyiv School of Economics was the center’s first international partner. Murtazashvili said the center’s work supporting resettled Afghan refugees inspired Mylovanov to start a global university centered on issues in Ukraine.

Murtazashvili said she and Mylovanov both recognized that the model the center used for Afghan scholars was “completely inappropriate for Ukraine.”

“First of all, they [Ukranians] have passports that they can travel, they can go to Europe,” Murtazashvili said. “Afghans can't go anywhere with their passports. They need a visa, they are trapped. And the intellectuals were at certain death, like, the Taliban would not tolerate them.

And Ukrainians, like, these are scholars at war who are determined to fight, and men can't leave the country because of conscription.”

The Ukrainian Global University partners the Kyiv School of Economics with several other Ukrainian universities, as well as the office of the president of Ukraine. Murtazashvili said the center will support Ukrainian scholars who are staying in the country or Europe through joint online programs and stipends. She said she hopes Pitt will sign on to be a part of the effort.

According to Mylovanov, the United States should do more to help Ukraine, such as declaring Russia a terrorist state and placing stronger sanctions on the Central Bank of Russia. He also said American citizens can support Ukrainians through donations and other work.

“People should donate, if they can,” Mylovanov said. “People can engage in all kinds of joint projects, you know, if you're an academic, you can write a paper jointly with Ukrainian academics. If you're a businessman, we can think about … trading projects, or joint production or training of employees in Ukraine, you know, doing things like that.”

Murtazashvili said Pitt is “lucky to have” Mylovanov as a faculty member, and the economist “has so much to offer our University.”

“He's just a huge resource for Pitt,” Murtazashvili said. “I think he's a role model for so many of us. He's a role model for me, as I think about, you know, academic leadership and how to build things and do things and create. He's a real inspiration. He is a rare bird in academia, I have to say.”

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Culture Pittsburgh coffee shops from around the world Elizabeth Nesbitt collection pittnews.com

Anoushka Parnerkar For The Pitt News

As the weather starts to warm up, people have started planning island getaways and European excursions. But for those of us who will summer in Pittsburgh, a stroll down Penn Avenue for a cup of coffee can be like a ticket to travel around the world.

Within a few miles on Pittsburgh’s Penn Avenue, coffee lovers can take a trip to India, Italy, Colombia and more. For those looking to expand on their palate, these shops each have their special brand of beverage to offer.

1. Adda Coffee and Tea House In the Garfield neighborhood lies Adda Bazaar, an offshoot of Adda Coffee and Tea House.

The bazaar, one of Adda’s five locations, serves as a multicultural hub serving artisan goods and coffee. The owner, who hails from Bangladesh, opened up the shop six years ago to share his

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love for travel and food, according to Adda’s coffee manager Evan Kelly.

Adda, which is a Bengali word for a place to gather with friends, has reached back to its South Asian roots. Most recently, the coffee house featured drinks inspired by the Hindu festival of Holi, which boasts bright colors and celebrations, according to Kelly.

“We featured lavender for a specialty drink, and added it to our full menu for Holi because we would add sweet potato pattern to make it a colorful drink,” Kelly said.

Kelly said it's because of eager and talented baristas that the shop can make such cool things happen.

“We sought out some advice from two local Pittsburgh foodies to find out what's happening behind both the boba and Indian flavor combinations and also just making sure that we're serving them right,” Kelly said.

2. Ineffable Cà Phê Further down Penn Avenue, sits Ineffable Cà Phê, a Vietnamese-style coffee shop serving up eccentric lattes, traditional Vietnamese food and drinks in a rustic and comfortable setting. After leaving his corporate job, owner Phat Nguyen said he wanted to do something he genuinely loved — making coffee.

“Vietnamese coffee is something that I genuinely love. I love the taste of it, how strong it is, I love that it's smooth and creamy,” Ngyuen said. “I would like [customers] to know what Vietnamese culture is like, with some Vietnamese food and some Vietnamese drinks.”

He sought to bring the vibe of coffeehouses he grew up with in Vietnam to the United States and create an inclusive environment for all, including gender-neutral bathrooms, non-coffee options and vegan and gluten-free menu items.

According to Nguyen, Vietnamese coffee

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shops are more like a place to hang out, a phenomenon not seen in traditional American shops.

“Coffee shops are where you go with snacks and food to hang out and sit and chill for a while.

That's why I want to bring that here,” Ngyuen said.

3. Colombino Coffee and Cacao Bar In the center of the Strip District, Colombino Coffee and Cacao Bar, a coffee kiosk outside a grocery store, boasts traditional grab-and-go Colombian fare and a full cacao-to-coffee experience. Owner Sebastian Lloreda said he opened the shop with the intention of highlighting Colombian culture, inspired by his hometown of Cali, Colombia.

Lloreda said he only sources the best coffee straight from Colombia, and roasts it himself in

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The creator economy can hurt users

Ebonee Rice-Nguyen Staff Columnist

As spring break Instagram posts rolled out, images of my classmates in picture-perfect tropical scenes bombarded me while I returned to the bleak surroundings of central Pennsylvania.

As the week continued, I found myself checking Instagram every 15 minutes, growing more and more bitter. I was filled with an urge to post something, anything, to indicate that I was also having fun — which I wasn’t.

I wanted to produce a false image of myself to my classmates and followers. I wanted to create a product.

Social media began as a place to connect digitally with people from all walks of life. The focus was community. As children, we bought into this. I remember days spent Snapchatting friends and sharing videos on Instagram, but felt a shift as I got older.

Social media no longer feels like a community, but instead like a platform for me to sell a filtered version of myself. Somehow it has become the new norm to view social media like a market — one where we are the products being sold.

This change is largely due to influencers — people with a strong online presence that persuade their targeted audience to buy promoted products. As they reign in more and more followers, their posts carry a greater impact and sales spike. This new mode of advertising is known as “influencer marketing.”

The genius of this kind of advertisement is that it allows consumers to think they’re in control. Social media has become the hub for our lives. We see ourselves in control of what we interact with and, more importantly, what we don’t. This creates an issue for brands, as they can’t reach consumers as easily. Influencer marketing is changing all of this.

People listen to their favorite YouTube star, Instagrammer or TikTok personality when they suggest buying a product. One study found that 49% of consumers rely on influ-

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encer recommendations.

Major brands now commit a portion of their budgets to this new marketing, and some brands are beginning to funnel money into what is called the “creator economy.” On social media, the term “influencer” has been replaced with “creator” to conjure what

social standing and self worth.

Instagram and other social media apps use likes and shares to create their own reward systems. In fact, these platforms activate the same part of the brain that gets fired up when people treat themselves to an extra dessert or make a few extra dollars gambling. When us-

Anna Johnson staff illustrator Kyle Chayka of the New Yorker calls, “an internet in which we are all artisanal blacksmiths plying our digital craft.” The internet has turned into a tool for each of us to shape our own brand.

Influencers make a living by posting photos of their daily lives and tagging a name brand in the corner. Some influencers can bring in $250,000 with a single post. But where does this leave the rest of us, the ones who don’t make a living through a few photo dumps? It forces us to navigate social media platforms that have turned into economies.

Influencers rely on likes, followers and shares to track engagement and collect earnings. These metrics have become what’s known as “social currency” — how consumers measure the credibility of influencers’ brands. But these are the same metrics that ordinary people use to reinforce their own

ers receive a like or share, their brains light up.

The like button has transitioned into a source of validation.

But as social media has become a center for performance, the stress of always having to perform has caught up with users. Teenag-

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ers who spend less time on social media reported less feelings of depression and anxiety.

With the addition of influencers, users aren’t comparing themselves to a friend with four more likes, they’re comparing themselves to somebody with millions more. Studies have also shown that increased social media use can lead to a multitude of issues such as depression, anxiety and abnormal sleep patterns.

All of these factors have led to an increased wave of ordinary social media users mimicking influencers. I’ve watched friends and peers tag brands in their Instagram pictures in order to create the same viral phenomenon that influencers are known for. In order to achieve the glow of a well-received Instagram post, users amp up their feed.

But as people copy influencers, they forget that influencers’ feeds aren’t their real lives — they’re products. Influencers capitalize off of their self-image. As more and more people mimic influencer trends and techniques, they move away from their own reality. What may have begun as an attempt to get more activity on their page, becomes a persona they have to keep up with. Influencer culture isn’t restrained to influencers anymore — it’s become a core of our society and it has made all of us view our own lives through the lens of social media currency.

Ebonee Rice-Nguyen writes primarily about political, social and cultural issues. Write to her at EJR76@pitt.edu.

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Pitt softball alumni recognized in Saturday matchup against Clemson Tigers

Christopher Cornejo Staff Writer

Pitt softball celebrated its 25th anniversary Saturday at Vartabedian Field, and a pre-game ceremony featured an appearance from members of the 2015 team.

This particular squad reached the ACC Championship Final, and also earned the team its first appearance in the NCAA tournament.

Kayla Harris, a former starting pitcher for the 2015 team, threw out the first pitch to kick off the action. The announcers honored individual alumni in between innings, highlighting their statistics and achievements during their time at Pitt.

Following the opening ceremony, the Panthers (13-19, 1-12 ACC) went on to face the No. 18 Clemson Tigers (29-10, 8-6 ACC). The Pan-

thers came up just short, falling 6-5 to the Tigers, after surrendering a one-run lead in the top of the seventh inning.

Former infielder Morgan Batesole was one of many players who returned for the pregame ceremonies. The alumna said she enjoyed being back in Pittsburgh to reconnect with former teammates.

“This is all just awesome and I wish we had this event more because it’s an amazing thing to be back with all my former teammates,” Batesole said. “It’s great seeing everyone back again connecting and sharing this moment together.”

Batesole said she appreciated the event, and how it featured Pitt softball alumni from the very first graduating class to the most recent.

“I love seeing people here from all the classes that graduated through this program, from the

class of 1998 to 2010 and even all the way to my own class of 2021,” Batesole said. “Being back on this field is such a great feeling and brings back a lot of memories from my time here.”

Batesole seemed right at home as she surveyed the diamond, mentioning some specific memories that stood out from her time at Pitt.

“If I had to pinpoint some special moments, one of them has to be winning the ACC Coastal championship my sophomore year,” Batesole said. “Our upset over ranked Florida State University also stands out because that was just a huge win for us and added to other upsets that season.”

Batesole also expressed her excitement for the 2022 ACC tournament, which Pitt is set to host this spring.

“I will be here for every game of the ACC

tournament,” Batesole said. “We were supposed to host the tournament a few years ago, but obviously things have happened since then, so it’s happening now. But hands down, we have the best field in the ACC and if you’re reading this, come out and support.”

Once the celebration dissipated, redshirt first-year pitcher Dani Drogemuller straddled the rubber and forced the first Clemson batter to ground out right back to her for the first out of the game.

She then proceeded to strike out the following batter, but walked the subsequent one. The fourth hitter reached base after being hit by a misthrown pitch from Drogemuller. This set

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Football, pg. 1 fense and showcased the ability to throw downfield. Slovis did not look as comfortable. While Slovis played behind a mixed and matched offensive line, and didn’t have much time to make his progressions, the southern California transfer averaged just more than three yards per attempt.

A lot of his passes fell short of the sticks and Pitt fans didn’t get to see his deep ball capabilities. Slovis did throw a couple of nice passes which receivers dropped, dampening his stat line. But overall, Patti stood out in a way Slovis failed to — the ability to produce explosive plays.

Narduzzi and both quarterbacks also noted that the offense held back a lot of its playbook, putting the defense at an inherent advantage. While fans watched Patti and Slovis battle it out on the field, both said they have a great relationship and welcome the competition.

“The more competition for me, the better,” Patti said. “I think it makes me better as a player and a person. When you get complacent and you don’t have someone pushing you, that’s when you don’t succeed as well.”

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Slovis added that many football programs don’t foster a family culture the way Pitt does, and is grateful to have the relationship he does with the rest of the quarterbacks.

“In terms of the relationship, I think that’s the most impressive thing out here,” Slovis said. “All of the guys have been so great … it feels like we’re a bunch of friends playing football … it’s really easy for football teams to get kind of cliquey.

There’s a lot of guys on the team, it’s really easy to have certain groups here and there but this is a legit team and everyone feels like one big family.”

While the offense operated under a limited playbook, the defensive frontseven from both the Blue and Gold teams showcased its depth and dominance. It seemed rising senior defensive lineman John Morgan III didn’t care that the game was just a scrimmage. Morgan was consistently in Slovis’ face, and was a big reason why the Blue Team struggled to move the ball downfield. Morgan registered two sacks, five total tackles and 2.5 tackles for loss.

Morgan and the rest of the defensive line will return many of the same players from last year’s team. The linebackers —

outside of senior SirVocea Dennis — will feature several new young and athletic players. Junior Bangally Kamara and senior Shayne Simon looked very comfortable on Saturday, and made a few impact plays each.

Simon jumped a pass from Slovis, intercepting the ball on an athletic, cerebral play. He also flew around the field, picking up five tackles on the day as well.

Kamara — who won defensive most improved player of the spring — seems to be penciled in as the second linebacker.

Kamara’s performance has stuck out in the coaches’ eyes and showed versatility in the scrimmage — registering 1.5 sacks and two tackles. The junior said he feels having a better approach mentally is a big reason he’s seeing results this spring.

“Athletically I feel like I had it all, but mentally is really where I improved,” Kamara said. “The coaches, they’ve always been on me … they push me to be better mentally because athletically I had it. It was just mentally I needed to grow.”

Special teams, as a whole, struggled on Saturday. The place-kickers went one-forfour on field goal attempts and first-year punter Sam Vander Haar mishandled a punt and looked unsure regarding what

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to do with the ball once the play went awry. Narduzzi acknowledged the struggles from the special teams unit and said he would’ve liked to see more from this group, particularly from Vander Haar.

“He was okay,” Narduzzi said. “Not real happy on the one where he dropped [the snap] and didn’t know what to do with it … he’s had a great spring, but you come into Heinz Field, you have to punt the ball.

That was not good.”

Narduzzi will continue to “watch the tape” and decline to name any official starters for the foreseeable future. But there are certainly winners and losers from the Spring Game. Patti, Kamara and Simon made strides towards assuming the starting roles. The offensive line’s lack of depth and Slovis’ struggles, on the other hand, did little to inspire hope.

Slovis, the offensive line and the special teams units will have an entire summer and training camp to win over Narduzzi before the Panthers officially take the field for the first time.

Pitt’s first game will be against the West Virginia Mountaineers on Thursday Night Football on Sept. 1. The game will be nationally televised and the first time the two teams have met since 2011.

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Davis, pg. 1 precisely be what brings us together."

Davis is a political activist and scholar internationally known for her involvement in the civil rights movement, when she was a member of the Black Panther and Communist parties. She is now a distinguished professor emerita at the University of California Santa Cruz, where she teaches in the history of consciousness and feminist studies departments.

Davis was arrested in 1970 after a gun registered in her name was used in an attempt to free the Soledad Brothers from prison, resulting in the deaths of several people. She was charged with murder, kidnapping and conspiracy, and was later acquitted of the charges. Davis said the movement to free her from prison after her arrest, rather than her own political activism, is what propelled her to international recognition.

“I think I am known primarily because of the campaign that was organized all over the country and all over the world for my freedom, which means that it's not so much because of what I did, but because of the movement that was generated to defend me,” Davis said. “I will be forever grateful to everyone in every country in the world, who in some way participated in that movement.”

Even though Davis is a well-known political activist and historical figure, Mann said it wasn’t that difficult to land her as a speaker for this event.

“Angela Davis is someone who is very much down for the cause,” Mann said. “She understands that her voice and her knowledge is something that can educate a whole generation and also just inspire them as well … so it was not difficult at all, and we're very appreciative of how forthcoming she was.”

BAS and 17 other Black student organizations at Pitt released a wide ranging list of demands to the University administration in June 2020, including increasing the Black student and faculty populations, amplifying the Black student voice and making changes to the curriculum.

While Mann said progress has been made, she also recently said communication between BAS and the administration needs to improve.

At the event, Mann asked Davis how young Black adults can come together to enact change and become a community in a time when individualism “seems to be the norm.” Davis agreed, calling capitalism-driven individualism “one of the key dilemmas of our time,” and said while she is against individualism, she believes individuality is important in creating community.

“I think people should, especially students,

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should attempt to discover what their individual passions are,” Davis said. “And in discovering of those passions, they can also figure out how best they are going to participate in collective struggles to make the world better.”

Mann said a major reason why BAS wanted to invite Davis to campus was because she is “a symbol of activism” who could motivate people to continue fighting for social justice, after years of marches and protests throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Burnout is very real right now, and we wanted someone that will inspire others to keep doing what they're doing and making sure that they're upholding their standards and continuing to do

the good fight,” Mann said.

Davis also spoke about the prison-industrial complex and prison abolition, a cause for which she has advocated for decades. Davis said she and the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners, which had first formed when she was incarcerated, decided to use the term to “get away from the assumption that imprisonment is the result of committing a crime.”

“We said we wanted to disarticulate crime and punishment,” Davis said. “You know, punishment happens for a lot of reasons. Racism is one of the primary reasons that punishment happens.”

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Davis said the United States is “in an era of activism,” especially considering the increase in protests and collective activism during summer 2020, after the “police lynching” and “police murder” of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, respectively. She said there is a promise embedded in the actions of those who protested racial injustice, and it is important to remember those actions today.

“I think that it is absolutely important to encourage historical memory and to hold on to that

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