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“I am the sole Holocaust survivor of a large, loving family,” Ms. Soumerai once said while advocating that education about genocide be mandatory for high school students.
"The dark side is here but the light is with us in color," Ms. Yalovitz-Blankenship wrote. "Color is the symbol of hope."
"That reverential moment when somebody walks into a bookstore is a different kind of experience," Mr. Stavis said.
During her ACLU tenure, Ms. Wunsch defended the right of people to record police officers on duty in public places, the rights of women who challenged workplace rules that said they had to wear makeup, and she handled cases concerning students of color whose schools said they couldn’t wear braided hair extensions.
"We have to allow for discomfort in the classroom," she said of the curriculum the nonprofit she cofounded brings to students.