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Sixth-Grade Girl Recants Claim That White Classmates Forcibly Cut Her Dreadlocks at Immanuel Christian School

‘WE SINCERELY APOLOGIZE’

Amari Allen’s family issued a statement asking the private school and local community for forgiveness.

Pilar Melendez
Pilar Melendez 

Senior National Reporter

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Pilar Melendez

Pilar Melendez

Senior National Reporter

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