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Oct 2020
42m 16s

The Bantus and Don'ts of Cultural Approp...

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Black culture has repeatedly been taken and commodified, but is there a way to appreciate and not appropriate? Where's the line and who has crossed it? What role does power and intent play? From Halloween costumes to Adele's Bantu knots, the girls get into it.

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