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When murals depict traumatic history, schools must decide what stays on the wall

When is art offensive, and when is it simply reflecting history? Those are the questions at the heart of multiple lawsuits between students of color and the institutions they attend.

Jon Kalish reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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