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Root to Flower: The Crooked Room and Why I'm Choosing Blackness Over Proximity
In 1998, Nas looked into a camera and said seven words: "I'm moving to Africa, word."
In 2026, I am standing at the same crossroads.
This episode connects four things that belong in the same conversation: my son's encounter with district police and a tampered video, the white allies in Democratic political spaces who want Black presence but not Black leadership, Mara Brock Akil building her own speaker system after UPN cancelled Girlfriends without a series finale, and Sincere from Belly refusing the Faustian Bargain and choosing Africa.
Using Patricia Hill Collins's Controlling Images…
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