The need for Black storytellers

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it's so important to have

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black storytellers in music in the arts

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in film in literature because we have

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important stories to tell and we are

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fully

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human the only way that you can show

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the full breadth of our humanity is to

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be present to be represented and to be

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able to tell your own stories

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we interviewed some of the best and

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brightest black storytellers of our time

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these people are true talents and take

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their crafts to new heights

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each of them come from vastly different

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fields of work

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but the one thing that bonds them

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together is their ability to tell

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compelling stories through their mediums

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story has the power

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to imprint on

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our memory in a way

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that pretty much nothing else does

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when stories are left out

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a section of humanity is left out and

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when you hear

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someone's