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were given time to work on our group projects. I love that I will be doing my book report and group project about The New Jim Crow because I am passionate about the criminal justice system and advocating for those who are unfairly treated in the justice system. For my groups project, Chloe Mortley, Carmen Brown, and I are supposed to create a Xavier magazine and do a 15-minute presentation. I like that there are only three people in my group because this means that finding a meeting time will be somewhat easy and that we will have different ideas to implement in our project.
My personal vision for this is to interview Xavier students about their thoughts on how fair the criminal justice system is and whether they view it as a form of racism.

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