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		<title>The Nickel Boys: 5 Modern Stories About Truth, Trauma and Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[IntroductionWhat happens after we learn that courage alone is not enough?&#160;Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys gave us Elwood and Turner, two boys who respond to injustice in radically different ways. Elwood believes truth must be spoken. Turner believes survival requires knowing when truth can get you hurt.&#160;The scholar conversation pushed those questions further. It asked [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Nickel Boys: What Kind of Hope Survives Injustice?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[IntroductionWhat kind of hope remains after a person discovers that goodness does not guarantee safety?&#160;Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys gives us Elwood Curtis, a boy who believes deeply in justice, dignity, and the moral vision of Martin Luther King Jr. It gives us Turner, who has learned a harsher lesson: survival may require caution, silence, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Underground Railroad Ending Explained</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What if Cora, Mabel, Caesar, Royal, and Ridgeway met after death to discover what freedom truly meant?Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad begins with escape, but it never treats escape as the final meaning of freedom.Cora leaves the Randall plantation in Georgia and enters a literal underground railway built by people willing to risk their lives [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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