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Tananarive Due

Tananarive Due is the award-winning author of several novels, short story collections, and a civil rights memoir. She teaches in the creative writing MFA program at Antioch University in Los Angeles. In 2010, she was inducted into the Medill School of Journalism's Hall of Achievement at Northwestern University. She also teaches a seminar on Afrofuturism, which you can learn more about here.

Articles

“He’s just a kid. Why are you putting a kid in handcuffs? This feels like profiling. Isn’t that what this is called?”
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Stories are dangerous. They can get you killed.

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After the slave trade and colonization, history has become a dystopia.
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