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A white male punk rocker with a mohawk walks along a pier with a white man in his 30s. They are both in a scuffed up state.

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Some are Calling the Buffalo Suspect a 'Teenager.' Is That a Privilege of His Race?

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A young Asian woman wearing dark glasses and a black hoodie, stands smiling and clutching a trumpet close to her chest, in front of a lake.

Who Says Big Band Jazz is for Old People? Not This Teen Composer

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These Kids Have Written the History of an Overlooked Black Female Composer

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An 1847 illustration from 'Our Famous Women: An Authorized Record of the Lives and Deeds of Distinguished American Women of Our Times' (1885). The illustration shows Blackwell at Geneva Medical College in upstate New York, as she eyes a note dropped onto her arm by a male student, which she took to contain 'a gross impertinence', during a lecture.

'Doctors Blackwell' Tells the Story of 2 Sisters Who Changed Medicine

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The New York Public Library's Most Checked-Out Books of All Time

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Bay Area Dance-Maker Called Up as New York Looks for Next Hot Thing in Ballet

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