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Faced with the oppressive challenges that plagued Maggie Walker (1864-1934), most people would react with defeatist resignation or bitter resentment. Not so with this enterprising pioneer, the first African-American woman to charter a bank, which she founded to foster black entrepreneurism during the dreadful Jim Crow era. Devoted to public
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Mayor Marty Walsh (D) considers access to quality education, especially for underprivileged children, his greatest responsibility. As the son of immigrant parents who worked hard to send him to good schools, Walsh witnessed firsthand both the challenges and benefits of different types of schools in the Boston area. After taking
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Leon Cooper is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist at Brown University and the director of its Institute for Brain and Neural Systems. Depending on whether you ask a physicist or a neuroscientist, you'll get very different answers on why Cooper is famous. The former will argue it is because
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As an internationally acclaimed performer, recording artist, and conservatory piano chair, Bruce Brubaker is uniquely positioned to identify the challenges of promoting classical music, especially among young people. He posits that "the walls are coming down" in a positive way between different genres, with contemporary trends such as
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