FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This interview originally appeared on October 20, 2022. *** I first saw Alora Young perform at Nashville’s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. in 2020. A talented performer, Young spit crisp lines about racism in present-day America that were interspersed with bars of song. In Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse, Young makes her fantastic debut in print. The collection of poetry is a tribute to…
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