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Nicole Shawan Junior
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ZORA

·Nov 28, 2019

How Queen Latifah’s Debut Album Sparked Joy at a Time When Everything Burned

‘All Hail The Queen’ came when Black girls were in the throes of a crack epidemic and inner-city violence. She spoke to our experiences — It was 1989 and I was eight years old when I arrived at the colossal red-brick building in Brooklyn where Mama, Daddy, and I lived. After hustling through a cracked cement courtyard and passing a thick metal door, I ran through the marbled lobby, bounded up the stairwell two steps…

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How Queen Latifah’s Debut Album Sparked Joy at a Time When Everything Burned
How Queen Latifah’s Debut Album Sparked Joy at a Time When Everything Burned
Music

10 min read


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Gay Mag

·May 22, 2019

No One Survives the Smoke

On crime passed down from generation to generation — Coney Island, Brooklyn. 2017. I pull onto Daddy’s block. The stocky frame houses stack next to one another like planks on the Boardwalk. It’s late fall so there is ample street parking, unlike the summer months when cars crush into each other like Colt 45 cans. A distant car horn…

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No One Survives the Smoke
No One Survives the Smoke
Essay

16 min read

Nicole Shawan Junior

Nicole Shawan Junior

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Nicole Shawan Junior is a multi-genre counter-storyteller & the founder of Roots. Wounds. Words. Writing Workshop for Womynx. Follow @NicoleShawanJunior

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