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Evette Dionne

Evette Dionne is a journalist, pop culture critic, and magazine editor. She’s the author of Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box, which was nominated for the National Book Award and won a Coretta Scott King author honor, and Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul. You can find her across the web at @freeblackgirl.

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