Freedom: Essays

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Best friends Anita and Rainie find refuge by an old sycamore tree with its neighboring lot of stray dogs who have a mysterious ability to communicate with humans

Just as the North Star guided the enslaved on their journeys to freedom

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“Scintillates with light and warmth…And it’s hilariously funny

Out of place next to her beautiful

Jin and Joon meet familiar friends and foe before reuniting to embark on a new mission to fix Halmoni's magic pot

paid Indigenous Americans $818 million for underhandedly stealing their land in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—an equivalent to almost $350 billion today

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dumps his cheating boyfriend

elucidating how we got here

But Ofosua’s identity as a Ghanaian heiress comes before Cole

Though she knows Harrison must have placed it