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Economics at Illinois State University

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Dr. Touré Reed, Professor of History, will deliver the Spring College Lecture on Wednesday, March 27 at 5 p.m. in the Circus Room in the Bone Student Center. His talk, "Is it Race or Racism?: Why Binary Explanations for Inequality Have Failed Black Americans," is free and open to the public. 

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