I Love Being A Black Woman

5 min readFeb 7, 2021

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I just finished watching One Night in Miami directed by Regina King on Amazon Prime. I had seen the movie advertised on my Amazon Prime home screen for weeks and like many Black movies, I bypassed it a hundred times...until today, I couldn’t bypass it anymore.

Samantha X

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Mompreneur. Writer. Web & Graphics Designer. Activist. Entrepreneur. CEO. Black in Tech. Educator. Millennial. Seeker of Truth. World Topics Discussed in Black

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