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How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?

August 21, 2020August 20, 2020 Vanessa Able

More than a century ago, the writer, historian, sociologist and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the unasked question that followed him everywhere: how does it feel to be a problem?

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