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ZORA
A publication from Medium that centers the stories, poetry, essays and thoughts of women of color.
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Michele Harper
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Jul 6, 2020
The Police Tried to Make Me Medically Examine a Man Against His Will
It’s illegal to treat someone…
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Khristi Lauren Adams
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Feb 4, 2020
Letting Black Girls Be Weak and Warriors at the Same Time
Black women have not had permission to be…
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Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe
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Nov 6, 2019
My Grandmother, the Segregated Trolley, and Me
In this excerpt from the late civil rights lawyer Dovey…
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Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD
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Mar 20, 2019
The Startling Ways Our Brains Process Racial Difference
We all know it’s harder to ID people of…
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2.9K
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Imani Perry
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Sep 18, 2019
Imani Perry on What She’s Learned About Mothering Black Boys in America
No matter how many say so, my…
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Karen G Bates
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Aug 26, 2019
How the Family Feeding Gene Was Handed Down to Me
My mother couldn’t sit by and see people, especially…
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CHOOSE
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Jun 19, 2019
Tell Me Who You Are
Cherokee, Catholic, and Trans
My family didn’t put any kind of…
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1.7K
8 responses
CHOOSE
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Jun 18, 2019
Tell Me Who You Are
Navigating Arkansas in a Black Body
When I was 16, our…
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CHOOSE
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Jun 17, 2019
Tell Me Who You Are
The Blackness of Country Music
The foundation of all American music…
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Leila Aboulela
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Jun 11, 2019
My Fashionable Friend Who Hated Hijab
Sartorial squabbles at a Catholic school in Sudan
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