The Truth Telling Project Summary

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1- The Truth Telling Project and their coalition partners have many aspects in common. Some of these are, that they are heavily focused in working within the community, and one of their objectives is to eliminate the racial inequality that suffers the American society. The Truth Telling Project has created a platform to empower people from the community, giving them the tools and a space where a dialog can be sustained, with the purpose of educating the American society in order to eliminate racism from it. This project and their coalition partners are representative of the central issues of engaged citizenship because they recognize the role and the responsibilities of citizens in a society, knowing that if we don’t work actively in solving

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