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Coastal Carolina University theatre professor Steve Earnest stands under a grove of trees near his home on Saturday, November 13, 2021, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Earnest has been involved in a controversy with minority students on campus after he refused to apologize after minority students' names were listed on a whiteboard in a class. A committee of professors swiftly found the concern to be based on a misunderstanding: the list was an attempt by a visiting artist to help minority students connect with other non-white students on campus. "Sorry but I don't think it's a big deal," Earnest wrote in an email to faculty and students. "I'm just sad people get their feelings hurt so easily." The controversy has resulted in boycotts of his classes, and he has since been delegated to other duties at the University. (Randall Hill/ For the Los Angeles Times)
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FILE - In this file photo dated May 27, 1957, Entertainer Josephine Baker holds a rhinestone-studded microphone as she performs during her show "Paris, mes Amours" at the Olympia Music Hall in Paris, France. The remains of American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker will be reinterred at the Pantheon monument in Paris, Le Parisien newspaper reported Sunday Aug. 22, 2021, that French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to bestow the honor. Josephine Baker is a World War II hero in France and will be the first Black woman to get the country’s highest honor. (AP Photo/File)

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LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 19, 2021 - Attorney Matthew Strugar holds some of the many mysterious Sea World postcards he's received at his office in Los Angeles on November 19, 2021. Strugar is an animal and civil rights attorney who sued Sea World several years ago for inhumanely keeping orcas captive. He lost, but a few years ago he began receiving postcards ostensibly from the orcas asking him for help. He kept getting these cards for years, and only recently learned who had been sending them. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

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