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Episode 4: The problem with "sounding white"

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How Do We Speak?

Chinaka Hodge is a poet, educator, playwright and screenwriter. She talks about how we sound and why it matters in this TED Talk. We go to her stoop in West Oakland where she writes the poem "North of Hodge" It's based on what she can see out of her window from there.

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