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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

What This Is Us Gets Right About Being a Black Kid in a White Family by Rebecca Carroll

There is no shortage of character tropes in NBC’s new series This Is Us: the fat girl with a heart of gold who secretly has Cyndi Lauper pipes; the pretty white boy actor who moves to…

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