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Survivors of Indigenous Boarding Schools want justice

The remains of hundreds of children were found at a school site in Canada, just one of nearly 500 former boarding schools for indigenous children that existed for a century. Now local Haudenosaunee people are seeking justice for the pain and suffering caused by the practice of forced “assimilation.”

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And a relic from the civil rights era emerges in Rochester, painting one of the most famous leaders of the movement in a different light.

Veronica Volk is a senior producer and editor for WXXI News.