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My family has been poor and working-class for generations. And we live – I live in this really small community in Southern Mississippi where you don’t evacuate, and you have never evacuated because there are too many people in your family to evacuate.

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I was raised in Mississippi, in a family and a community that identified as black, and I have the stories and the experiences to go with it. One of my great-great grandfathers was killed by a gang of white Prohibition patrollers.

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People ask me all the time, ‘Why did I move home?’ As well as I can articulate it, that’s why. I moved home because I love the community that I come from.

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May 3, 2024

People ask me all the time, ‘Why did I move home?’ As well as I can articulate it, that’s why. I moved home because I love the community that I come from.

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May 3, 2024

I was raised in Mississippi, in a family and a community that identified as black, and I have the stories and the experiences to go with it. One of my great-great grandfathers was killed by a gang of white Prohibition patrollers.

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