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Marcie Alvis Walker
Marcie Alvis-Walker is a writer and the creator of the blog and Instagram feed, Black Coffee with White Friends, and the author of EVERYBODY COME ALIVE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS. She lives in Chicago, Illinois with her husband, college-aged kid, and their dog Evie. She spends her time there buying too many—yet not enough books, bingeing too many—yet not enough reality TV, writing too many—yet not enough words.
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May 8, 2024If They’d Told Me We Were Poor, I Would’ve Embraced the Word “Poor”
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April 22, 2024If They’d Told Me We Were Poor, I Would’ve Given This Commencement Speech to Other Poor College Graduates
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April 5, 2024If They’d Told Me We Were Poor, I Would’ve Ignored the White Gaze
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March 20, 2024If They’d Told Me We Were Poor, Would I Have Been More Christian and Less Black?
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March 4, 2024If They Told Me We Were Poor, I Would’ve Taken Out More Student Loans
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February 15, 2024If They’d Told Me We Were Poor, I Would’ve Prayed Less and Written More
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January 31, 2024If They’d Told Me We Were Poor, I Would’ve Married a Millionaire
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January 12, 2024If They’d Told Me We Were Poor, I Would’ve Married a Man with a Pension
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