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6/19/24

6/19/24

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Robert Jones, Jr.
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When I wrote my novel, The Prophets, I was writing, in part, to put out into the world a story I wanted to read. During my literary journey, I had never encountered a work that centered a romance between two Black male characters in a time period prior to the Harlem Renaissance. I had seen sexual assault depicted readily: In Incidents in the Life of a S…

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