I Was Stranded in My Hometown and Ended Up in a Substantive Conversation on Race and Culture with a Pair of White Strangers

A brief travel story about a powerful cultural exchange

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I’ve spent the past few days in my hometown of Baton Rouge as I was brought out to be a presenter at the 11th annual National Civil Rights Conference. A portion of this year’s conference was hosted on the campus of my alma mater, Southern University, and the presentation I was contracted to do was based on a multimedia project…