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Iowa State cuts ties with aide at center of blackface uproar

by Associated Press
| March 25, 2020 9:03 AM

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The staff adviser to Iowa State University's student government has resigned and received a $47,000 severance payout after student activists demanded his firing over an old Instagram post showing him in blackface.

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