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My city need something : portraits and prose for black existence /

"Moving between word and image, the call-and-response collaboration between writer Christopher R. Rogers and photographer Karim Brown improvises a contemporary portrait of present-day Black Philadelphia, replete with the unfinished activism present since the transnational upsurge of the George...

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Main Author:	Rogers, Christopher R. (Author)
Other Authors:	Brown, Karim (Photographer)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia, PA : Common Notions, [2026]
Subjects:	African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia. African Americans > Civil rights > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia. Essays.

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