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Poor, Black LGBTQ Youth Still Suffering
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
21 Oct 2019
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Although LGBTQ communities have a much higher political profile than in the past, Mustafa Sullivan, director of FIERCE, an organization that builds leadership among LGBTQ youth of color in New York City, says “that didn’t change our economic condition, just because some folks got on the national stage. We’re still suffering in those jails, next to Black straight men,” and from violence and poverty.

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