Morgan Jerkins: "Traveling While Black"

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Sep 26, 2018Society & Culture

Is there any place where a black person can just be herself? Three contributors to the collection Traveling While Black — Mateo Askaripour, Jamilah Lemieux, and collection editor Morgan Jerkins — read their stories on th...

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