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Diversity Dinner speaker provides strategies for talking about race
A few years ago, a gentleman (whose name I did not get in my notes, much to my regret) stopped by Homewood village hall during Mayor Rich Hofeld’s Meet the Mayor session.
He implored Hofeld to find a way to incorporate Frederick Douglass’s “What is the Fourth of July to the Slave” speech into the village’s Independence Day celebration. (That conversation led to the Chronicle’s…
