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“Farmer and his brother making music” by Russell Lee, here cropped, is marked with CC PDM 1.0.
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The CC team has been evaluating our progress toward our 2021-2025 strategy. Through that process, we have noticed the ways we have been organically adjusting to the social and technical shifts around us, as well as the ebbs and flows of funding availability. It would be an understatement to say that much has changed since…
