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Dr. Pascal Lee is a planetary scientist with the SETI Institute, Mars Institute and NASA Ames Research Center in California.

This year’s Black History Awards Gala is themed a “Night of Stars.” The event will be held Feb. 28 at the Klein Center on the ...