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Valedictorian’s Speech Interrupted While Listing Names of Black Teens Shot by Police

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Jun 08, 2019
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A Texas teenager said school administrators cut the microphone during her high school valedictorian speech because she listed the names of Black teens who were victims of police brutality.

Rooha Haghar, the valedictorian at Emmett J. Conrad High School in Dallas, said in a statement on Twitter that she was reading a list of Black teens who were killed as…

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