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Advice For Student Activists: It's A Marathon, Not A Sprint

Youth activism in America has a long and complicated history. As students flood streets around the country, two activists offer advice to those marching.
Activists Denise Oliver-Velez and Mark D. Naison give advice to the new generation of student activists.

On Saturday, thousands of youth activists are expected to participate in the "March for Our Lives," — in Washington, D.C.; in Accra, Ghana, Israel, Chile and elsewhere around the world.

Lane Murdock, a, will be in D.C. for the protest. Murdock wrote a after the Parkland shooting calling for gun control — it went viral and morphed into a school planned for April with more than

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