Raised on ghost stories, grief and the unspoken rules about silence that Black girls like her learned early in life, author Leslie Lee Sanders says she spent much of her life trying not to take up too much space. “Sit down, be quiet, raise your hand before you speak,” Sanders recalls being told during her […]
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