Spill The News

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I want to share a story of struggle. Actually, two kinds of struggle. My father completed his doctorate at the University of Utah in the early 1970s. For his dissertation, he ran a statistical analysis on genealogical records to determine…

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This year, Americans are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence . That statement of foundational political principles and national identity in the summer of 1776 capped off a year of armed conflict marked by…

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The story Mike Landry told about his students, who were majority African American, sounded depressingly familiar: poor, raised on the wrong side of the tracks, ignored, forgotten. But it made the rest of their story seem even more…

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As we drove across the bridge that read, “Trenton Makes, the World Takes,” the red lights brightened my worried face. It took 20 minutes to drive back home from my admissions interview, but the Delaware River felt like the width of the…