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Wednesday Oct 23, 2013
Where They Were From
Wednesday Oct 23, 2013
Wednesday Oct 23, 2013
Usually when we all have conversations about race and poverty, it's usually in a very abstract way. We often loose sight of how these realities impact peoples lives. Not in a political or policy sense, but simply with respect to what life is like in the poor and rural parts of the American South.
Few have a better ear or better understanding of this reality than National Book Award winner and Stegner Fellow Jesmyn Ward. Now she looks back at the loss of five men that she grew up with in her memoir, Men We Reaped:
My conversation with Jesmyn Ward:
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