Black Exceptionalism Is Not Always Black Excellence

When Black people struggled to penetrate media of any kind, any representation was historic — but we need more from our art

Scott Woods
LEVEL
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5 min readMar 3, 2021

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Scott Woods
LEVEL
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Writer and poet holding down Columbus, Ohio