Stoop Bonus: Black women are something else

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Stoop Bonus: Black women are something else

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Dec 14, 2017

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Writer, mother and part-time hippie Stacia Brown is making our hearts sing and fingers snap with all she has to bring in this essay about the strength of Black women and the myth of the angry Black woman.

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Dec 14, 2017

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