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Topic: my brother’s keeper

Oscar Patterson (C-SPAN)

Ian Blair
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-590956p1.html'>Kris Schmidt</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

We are failing black girls

Jenny Kutner
(Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

Not lying down and taking it

Brittney Cooper
Muslim-American Ali-Jaafar Al-Zain, 9, holds a poster during a peaceful interfaith rally in Dearborn, Michigan September 21, 2012. (Reuters/Rebecca Cook)

Lift up Muslim American boys

Sara Kamali
Sasha and Malia Obama (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

Black girls' zero-sum struggle

Brittney Cooper