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Advocate Mariame Kaba explains why the Cyntoia Brown story is compelling, complicated, and deeply frustrating—why it’s wrong to portray Cyntoia Brown as a child, why Brown’s story is deeply familiar to black women in America, and why Kaba considers Brown’s crime a radical act of “self-love.”
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Podcast production by Mary Wilson and Jayson De Leon.
