"If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country."

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I felt like if I didn't write about what happened to the young men here in the South of America, the same things would keep occurring. Here in the South, young black men just keep dying - young black women, too. I couldn't live with myself if I hadn't been as honest as possible about that.

— Jesmyn Ward