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Code Switch
In college admission, trauma is shorthand for Blackness

And when you heard more compelling, you understood that to mean that I needed to write about hardship and overcoming trauma or pain, um and something that reflected or talked more about my identity as a black girl, a black girl from Detroit, a black girl from a low-income community, a black girl who was first-generation college.

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3d ago
Book of the Day
Patrick Radden Keefe on 'London Falling' and the mystery of Zac Brettler

But there was a kind of corrosive anxiety, I think, about not having more. And you know, in some ways this is a very specific story about one boy who was a fabulist and who died too young. In other ways, I feel as though there are elements of this story that many of us would recognize.

2w ago
Fresh Air
The hidden history of blackface in America

It is our patriotic duty as American citizens and as patriots to help make sure that the American public has access to our history in all of its complexity. And the truth is, is that you can't understand the victories and the triumphs without understanding how far Americans had to push.

1mo ago

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