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Members of Operation Understanding on BET's Content for Change: Black x Jewish.
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Content for Change: Black X Jewish
Operation Understanding on How to Build Cultural Empathy

Members of Operation Understanding DC, an organization that brings Black and Jewish teenagers together, describe how they've grown as activists through their experience in the program.

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