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The Unheard Speak Many Languages
On May 25, 2020, the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the hands of police officer Derek Chauvin lit the nation ablaze.
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With Compliments
I remember the way that he called me beautiful, made me feel that I wasn’t. Rather, I was a picture in his mind, fixed in a gallery somewhere behind glass that was never smudged. Distantly pristine.
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Breaking the silence @ BLM Brighton
Growing up in Moscow, as a child of a white Russian mother and a black Nigerian father, was confusing, to say the least.
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Looking Backwards (The Glow Up vs The Cringe)
This year I turned twenty. The two decades under my belt mark that I am, obviously, now so wise and so old.