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THE CULTURAL CORNER THAT COULD

On an early July afternoon in Connecticut, activist and advocate Kamora Herrington (right) is on her back porch prepping for a Zoom talk for Kamora’s Cultural Corner called “Black Trans Human Beings,” facilitated by Rev. Louis Mitchell.

Just a few feet away from her, visual artist Kim Hinds Jr. (better known as Tree Sage) paints a piece dedicated to Elijah McClain, the young Black man killed by police in Colorado last summer. The case has gathered steam in the weeks since the police killings of George Floyd and others.

Kamora’s Cultural Corner—a “physical and metaphorical” space

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