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White Students at a Cincinnati High School Posted "Blacks Only" and "Whites Only" Signs Over Water Fountains — Yes, in 2022.

Students at Colerain High School thought it was cool to bring back segregation-era signage and post pictures of it on social media

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Donney Rose
May 20, 2022
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Back in 2019 when I was conducting interviews for a history-driven spoken word poetry project I was working on, a wise professor of Sociology by the name of Dr. Thomas Durant told me one of the most profound things I ever heard in my life regarding the legacy of American racism — Dr. Durant said that racism has survived because o…

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