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    Lois Reitzes talks with Calinda Lee and Kate Whitman of the Atlanta History Center, about their virtual Juneteenth events; Atlanta Opera singer Morris Robinson about George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess"; and Charmaine Minniefield about her virtual Flux Projects installation "Remembrance as Resistance: Preserving Black Narratives."

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