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How Queen Latifah’s Debut Album Sparked Joy at a Time When Everything Burned

‘All Hail The Queen’ came when Black girls were in the throes of a crack epidemic and inner-city violence. She spoke to our experiences

Nicole Shawan Junior

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ZORA

10 min readNov 28, 2019

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Nicole Shawan Junior

Written by Nicole Shawan Junior

Writer for

ZORA

Nicole Shawan Junior is a multi-genre counter-storyteller & the founder of Roots. Wounds. Words. Writing Workshop for Womynx. Follow @NicoleShawanJunior

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