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I Want You To Know You Are Powerful: Commencement Address to Eugene Lang College

A Commencement Address to the Graduates of Eugene Lang College

May 25, 2016 • by Deva Woodly
It is an incredible honor to be here with you today and to be entrusted with the task of speaking to you in this moment. You are here with your friends and family to celebrate what is, so far, the culmination of the journey you have undertaken to educate yourselves ...
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Jackson Does Not Belong Anywhere on the Twenty

May 4, 2016 • by Daniel Walker Howe
I gladly welcomed the recent news that Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the US twenty-dollar bill. At first I believed -- like many Americans, I think -- that Jackson would be expunged altogether. So I felt sorry to learn that the bills will continue to ...
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