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Okay, Katie, quick, rapid fire. What do you think about when you think about black stories?

Tony Morrison. Long novels. Zines. Very complex stories. Movie night with popcorn. Lineage and

history. B.T Awards. Hood motifs. I'm reliable narrators. So it's hard to condense a narrative that's

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