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Zillah Wesley
Zillah Wesley
“You're not always in front. Sometimes, community is taking out the trash for somebody else or bringing somebody lunch or just calling the check on somebody…you just show love. Treat somebody how you want to be treated and be a light for somebody, especially in the system that will tear you down and break you down for just existing.”
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“What I'd like to see is how important it is for people to vote for them to realize that they have a…
Zillah Wesley
“You're not always in front. Sometimes, community is taking out the trash for somebody else or bringing somebody lunch or just calling…
Venorica Tucker
Venorica shares how the pandemic created and exacerbated insecurity for food workers. “We don't have some people who were finally buying a…
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Eshe Shukura
"I loved guaranteed income. But I often was like, I don't want it to feel like dignified welfare, I think it is…
Mary Black-Wright
"There’s always room for growth… When people say, oh I remember the good old days, I don’t remember that. I remember, don’t…
Wula Dawson
"That very false narrative of Black folks having mink coats and sitting on welfare rolls, I mean, it's so irrational, because there's…