Episode notes
Listen to Black American screenwriter and novelist Toni Ann Johnson — from upstate New York and a long-time resident of Los Angeles, California — share about working and living during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Toni Ann shares:
“I am technically mixed. So I have as much white European blood as Black, but I don't identify as a mixed race person. Although I look like a mixed race person. I identify as African American. I grew up in an all-white area where I was routinely called the N-word, and so I’m Black, and I now live in a mostly Black, but also some Latinx area, and it's gentrifying, so there's white people here too. But, when I bought my house, it was mostly Black and Latinx.”
“So in 2020 I was teaching at USC…I had two classes a week. So, I was going to campus, which I don't live that far from U ...
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