Four students representing the NAACP’s Boston branch won national medals at this year’s Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics, or ACT-SO, an annual event for Black high school students that the NAACP has run since 1978.
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“This is really an opportunity for us here in Boston to reintroduce ourselves to Black America,” said NAACP Boston Branch President Tanisha Sullivan. “We know the perception, the reputation we have as one of America’s most racist cities. This moment gives us the opportunity to reframe that.”