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Juneteenth Is an Act of Bravery

Notes from America with Kai Wright

CHAPTER

The Life and Career of an Artist

LZ Granderson: I think your own life story and journey as an artist really offers a useful and concrete way to get into the conversation about that. And why the stages of your life and career have been kind of like building blocks. It seems like, so let's start at the beginning. Your family came to the United States from Nigeria when you were nine years old, I believe. LZ: My dad got in touch with some missionaries in his hometown who helped her and us to come here for her to get some medical treatment for her burns. So that's how we ended up here through white Christian missionary work.

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