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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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November 12, 2024How Much Do You Need?
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September 16, 2024If They’d Told Me We Were Poor, I Wouldn’t Have Changed a Thing
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August 23, 2024If They Told Me We Were Poor, I Would’ve Pretended to Be Color-Blind
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July 26, 2024If They’d Told Me We Were Poor, I Wouldn’t Have Tolerated the Cynics
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July 8, 2024If They’d Told Me We Were Poor, I Would’ve Been Like James Baldwin and Worked a “Black Job”
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June 20, 2024If They’d Told Me We Were Poor, I Would’ve Tried Being Funny
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May 29, 2024If They’d Told Me We Were Poor, I Would’ve Gathered More Rosebuds
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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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