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ARIAN SIMONE & AYANA PARSONS

When Arian Simone was growing up in Detroit, it was her “job” to check in on one of her father’s legal clients every afternoon. The client was Rosa Parks. “She was quite a lady, a lady, you hear me? Just this incredible human being,” Simone says. Little did Simone know that she, too, would one day be engaged in a civil rights battle.

In 2018, Simone started the Fearless Fund, the

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