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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: CiCi Ferrara — A young voice of calm on race
Description: CiCi Ferrara spoke at a home-grown Black Lives Matter rally in Berne on Aug. 9 about what it was like to be the only Black student in her class at Berne-Knox-Westerlo. In this week’s podcast, her kindness shines through as she describes both the experiences she suffered through as well as the sense of common humanity she gained from her high school social studies teacher, James Lemire, another speaker at the rally. Ferrara recalls a field trip she took as a student in Lemire’s sociology class to a maximum-security prison where she and her classmates talked to two inmates who...