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By Kizzy Cox ·Updated January 29, 2025
As a child growing up in East St. Louis during the 1970s, Olympian Jackie Joyner-Kersee didn’t know how far her talents would take her—but the local community center was her key to discovering the answer. At the Mary Brown Center,
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