CULTURETECHLENSBlack Star Project
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Combined Graph record U-01691 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-I-0134. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Chicago education advocacy
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Chicago education advocacy
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- https://www.blackstarproject.org/history (verification source · master store)
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The Black Star Project's own history page states it was founded in 1996 by Phillip Jackson to improve the quality of life in Chicago's Black and Brown communities and to eliminate the racial academic achievement gap, beginning as a mentoring program in two Chicago public schools — a Chicago education-advocacy organization (fetched in full 2026-10-17).
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Chicago: CultureTechLens. “Black Star Project (CTL-I-0134).” CultureTechLens Combined Graph. Chicago, IL: CultureTechLens, 2026. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-i-0134/
APA: CultureTechLens. (2026). Black Star Project (CTL-I-0134) [Entity record]. CultureTechLens Combined Graph. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-i-0134/
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