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Jerald Walker
Crip-Walking at the Commencement: Jerald Walker on the Shifting Significance of Black Gestures
The Author of “Magically Black and Other Essays” Reflects on Serena Williams, Gang Signs, and “Scaring the White Folks”
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Jerald Walker
| September 10, 2024
Jerald Walker Gets a Bad Haircut... and It All Goes Downhill From There
Whatever You Do, Stay Away From the "Kaleshion"
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Jerald Walker
| November 5, 2020
Navigating a World That Sees My Black Son's Suffering as Incidental
Jerald Walker on the Systemic Disregard of the Medical Establishment
By
Jerald Walker
| November 13, 2019
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