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At Harper High School in Englewood, yesterday began like any other day.
A Dr. Pepper delivery truck hummed in the parking lot.
Teenagers trudged through slush to make the eight o’clock bell.
And Kenyatta Stansberry Butler, the school’s principal, made her morning stop at McDonald’s.
Of course, the day was anything but normal for this young, African American principal, her almost entirely black student body and the rest of America.
“I think everybody is just excited. It’s a different kind of feeling in the building today. It is,” said Stansberry Butler.
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