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An 11-year-old Prince spoke out in support of his striking Minneapolis teachers – a historian of the city's music scene explains why

  • Written by Rashad Shabazz, Associate Professor at the School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University
imageThe Minneapolis public school system helped to musically educate artists like Prince, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. John Ferguson/Mirrorpix/Getty Images

For Prince fans around the world, the recent discovery of the singer speaking out at age 11 on behalf of striking Minneapolis public schoolteachers is an exciting piece of Prince pop cultural...

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