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Youthful Grant Makers Seek Ways to Bridge Troubled Racial Waters
By Brad Wolverton
As one of the only biracial students in her suburban Washington, D.C., middle school, Jennifer Occean says she used to come home from school crying because kids teased her about having a black father and Hispanic mother. She transferred to another school after the parents of her best friend, who was white, wouldn't let the girls be friends anymore...