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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

Race, And Two Reunions

the great divide

Robert Samuels with a good one on deadline: Even 40 years after graduation, Miami Carol City High's class of 1970 bursts with a stubborn pride.

Pride for having a basketball team that went to the state championship their senior year.

Pride, for having a rocking marching band.

And lots of pride, for being one of the Miami-Dade's first integrated classes to graduate without having a single, major racial disturbance.

Yet, it's that same pride, some say, that might have led to an almost unthinkable reality in the year 2010: the class of 1970 still has segregated class reunions.

One white. One black.

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