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DPS Community District/Black Reading Month

Season 51 Episode 38

As students settle in for the fall semester, Detroit Public Schools Community District Superintendent Dr. Nikolai Vitti sits down with host Stephen Henderson on the grounds of DPSCD's The School at Marygrove. Then, in a previously aired interview, Henderson talks with Malik Yakini, co-founder of September is Black Reading Month, about the annual observance. Episode 5138

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