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“More Than A Skin Tone”: Niles West Holds Annual Black History Month Assembly

By Morgan Warner-Mackey, Photo Editor • Feb 25, 2025
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Junior Lydie Boussoukou welcomes everyone to the Black History Month Assembly. This year’s theme for the assembly was “More Thank A Skin Tone.” “I hope people learned our main goal, which was to overlook the color of our skin when speaking to one another and realize that we are more than the first thing people look at-our skin,” Boussoukou said.
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