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Embracing my Blackness - cover photo

Embracing my Blackness

By Lauryn Boucree ’21

Bates College
By Bates College
March 10th, 2021
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As told to Aaron Morse of the Bates Communications Office. Photos courtesy of the Boucree family. Additional photos by Theophil Syslo, Phyllis Graber Jensen, Vanessa Williamson '05 and Brewster Burns.

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