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Paris While Black

Paris While Black

A memoir.

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Michael David Cobb Bowen
Feb 06, 2023
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J. asked me to write about what it’s like being me, a black American, in various places around the world. So I’ll speak for myself. Let me preface this series with an arrogant presumption that I think is likely to be more true than not.

What millions of black Americans desire from black politics, I already have. I am at least one mountaintop further tha…

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