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Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word | Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

03.12.2020 - By TEDPlay

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Historian Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor leads a thoughtful and history-backed examination of one of the most divisive words in the English language: the N-word. Drawing from personal experience, she explains how reflecting on our points of encounter with the word can help promote productive discussions and, ultimately, create a framework that reshapes education around the complicated history of racism in the US.

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