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Speaker 1: Last week, the city of Somerville hosted a panel discussion

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Speaker 1: called Lessons of the Past Civil Rights Movement Than in Now,

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Speaker 1: and according to Katherine Necketow, it was a hit.

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Speaker 2: He had Aana Presley, Michael Curry, and Corney Henderson come

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Speaker 2: in and it was a firehouse.

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Speaker 1: She's the deputy director for the city's Department of Racial

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Speaker 1: and Social Justice and tells me people really seem to

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Speaker 1: respond to it hearing from powerful speakers about their own

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Speaker 1: life experiences.

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Speaker 2: I think the feedback was overwhelming, to be honest, the

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Speaker 2: amount of people that have walked away feeling encouraged.

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Speaker 1: They also had a free wellness workshop and movie screenings.

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Speaker 1: These kids watching Soul at the Armory Performance Hall, while

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Speaker 1: for the bigger kids, there's The Hate You Give and

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Speaker 1: the documentary True Justice Brian Stevenson's fight for equality in Somerville.

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Speaker 1: I'm a Freedman. W b Z, Boston's news radio