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DeSantis’s opposition to the teaching of AP African American history speaks to a state power apparatus that is afraid of a factual recitation of Florida’s real history.

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There was the fight to restore the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance on his bleeding heart campus.

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At Paul Revere Junior High, Russell won first place at a Shakespeare Festival for his sonnet recitation.

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On the outside, it seems like it’s a quiet, calm ballad as it opens; Ellis on guitar, a recitation of the story of "a girl who’s got no history / got no past."

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Just as Lorca embodies Lorca, Wainwright threads recitations of Lord Byron’s 1816 “Darkness,” throughout a score otherwise based on the traditional Latin requiem text.

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