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Literacy Is Liberation: Rochester’s Wake-Up Call
There are moments when a conversation stops being commentary and becomes a mirror.
A city can spend money, build slogans, rename programs, hold press conferences, and still leave a child staring at a page he cannot understand.
A state can say “ever upward” while families look around and wonder whether anyone in power still knows which way up is. Rochester knows this contradiction too well. It is the resting place of Frederick Douglass, a man who understood that literacy was not decoration. It was not a school metric. It was not a political talking point. It was the first key in the lock…
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