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Guest Commentator

Nzingha Tyehemba

Nzingha Tyehemba can be reached by email at [email protected].

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Guest Commentary

Back from New Orleans

By Nzingha Tyehemba Guest Commentator

After a week spent volunteering in New Orleans, I left overcome with two feelings: one, of the converging influences of racism, classism and capitalism preventing a just rebuilding process; and two, of the way my college delicately skirts challenging these forms of oppression. I journeyed to New Orleans from Selma, AL with 165 other students,…

After a week spent volunteering in New Orleans, I left overcome with two feelings: one, of the converging influences of racism, classism and capitalism preventing a…

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