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Lisa Sharon Harper, senior mobilizing director for Sojourners, speaks to an audience March 3 in Emerson Suites about her mother, pictured on the screen, who experienced race-based job discrimination when she was young.

Speaker highlights national budget as a source of race-based poverty

By Kayla Dwyer, Assistant News Editor March 5, 2014
Harper is the senior mobilizing director for Sojourners, a national, Christian-oriented organization which calls for action for social and racial justice. During her March 3 lecture in Emerson Suites, she said the imaginative task is difficult for some people because many lack the imagination to think of a world where race-based poverty is not a constant war.
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