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Oct 29, 2019

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Elyria, Ohio. Collage illustration: Renald Louissaint; Photography: Rikki Wright.

Rust: A Black Woman’s Story of Growing Up in Northeast Ohio

Black women I know from home have stories that often go unnoticed and untold

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