The Price of Ambition with Amy DuBois Barnett

Ratchet & Respectable by Demetria L. Lucas & Studio71

Aug 18, 202626:30Society & Culture

Amy DuBois Barnett is an editor icon—the former editor-in-chief of Teen People, Honey and Ebony and one of those women everybody in media wants to be. And now, she is finally living the dream she first had in her 20s: no...

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