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Nicole Young

Soft Words for Black Girls

When I was in middle school, I had a friend named DeDe, who was painfully shy. DeDe loved to talk to her friends, but would clam up…

6 min readApr 25, 2021

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Nicole Young

Magical Realism Is for Us by Us and Toni Morrison Was the Queen

I originally wrote this on the day Toni Morrison died, August 5, 2019. I was sitting in a café in Spain, crying, and wishing I had somehow…

5 min readAug 5, 2020

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Nicole Young

Dear Tre, (Part 3)

The final letter in a series of essays with my dear friend, Tre Johnson. We started this whole series about Megan Thee Stallion and Kanye…

5 min readJul 26, 2020

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Dear Tre, (Part 3)

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Nicole Young

“Dear Tre”, (Part 2)

A letter in a series to my friend, Tre, about Meg Thee Stallion, Kanye, Black womanhood, The Culture, and Black love. You can read Tre’s…

6 min readJul 23, 2020

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Nicole Young

Dear Tre, (Part 1)

A letter to my friend, Tremaine Johnson, about Meg Thee Stallion, Kanye, Black womanhood, and Black love.

6 min readJul 22, 2020

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Dear Tre, (Part 1)

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Nicole Young

Stop Posting About Cops High-Fiving Protestors

It’s propaganda friends, plain and simple.

2 min readJun 1, 2020

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Stop Posting About Cops High-Fiving Protestors

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Nicole Young

For The Working Class Black Parents Whose Lives We Will Not Save

My uncle Roger died in 2017, well before coronavirus. For many years of my childhood, he worked on a garbage truck. He and my father were…

3 min readMay 7, 2020

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For The Working Class Black Parents Whose Lives We Will Not Save

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Nicole Young

Lazy Journalism is Killing Black People

The first voice you hear on the April 9th episode of The Daily podcast is a white woman talking about the coronavirus in New Orleans.

4 min readApr 10, 2020

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Lazy Journalism is Killing Black People

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Nicole Young

Are D-Nice’s DJ Sets the New Fireside Chats?

The truth is the president is an imbecile.

4 min readMar 22, 2020

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Are D-Nice’s DJ Sets the New Fireside Chats?

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Nicole Young

Black Women Deserve a Radical Retelling of Now

There is a way we tell history that leaves Black women stranded.

5 min readMar 11, 2020

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Nicole Young

Nicole Young

Nicole is a writer, educator, and procrasti-baker, living in Philly. She‘s also a proud graduate of the University of South Carolina and VA native.

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