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OPINION | In 2022, we can’t let Lauren Smith-Fields tragic death become another hashtag.

  • Chelsea Mtada

It’s no longer enough to say our names. Lauren Smith-Fields and Black girls and women deserve justice too. When I first heard the tragic story of Lauren Smith-Field’s death, I could feel a sudden numbness wash over me. It was my brain's attempt to protect me from the horrific reality that by being a Black woman who exists, I am in immediate defiance of a world that wants to see me extinct. The media calls for us to ‘Say Her Name.’ I come here to ask you if you even remember all their names? I don’t. READ MORE ON GUAP.CO

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