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·Oct 1, 2020

Was the Commodification of Breonna Taylor Worth It?

Through her death, she became an icon. I wrestle with its impact. — Her likeness was everywhere, immortalized. A cyan dream on the September cover of Vanity Fair. Angelic, floating midair toward the skyline on 26 billionaire-branded billboards. A mural painted on two basketball courts in a park in Annapolis, Maryland, so substantial it was visible only in full from the sky. On…

Breonna Taylor

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Was the Commodification of Breonna Taylor Worth It?
Was the Commodification of Breonna Taylor Worth It?
Breonna Taylor

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Feb 11, 2016

School Spirit

I am told today is February 10, 2016, which means Kanye West’s grand album College Dropout was released on this day 12 years ago. What’s below is more or less a transcript of something I read on September 9, 2015 in Brooklyn, New York for LIT. …

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School Spirit
School Spirit
Kanye West

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writer, literature teacher, phd candidate at columbia

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