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"Unphased": The first exclusive essay from Robert Jones, Jr. for paid subscribers of WITNESS.

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Robert Jones, Jr.
Jan 31, 2024
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Hello Family,

I’ve been listening to singer/songwriter/producer Arin Ray’s latest album, Phases III and it sparked in me a need to think and write about it. What started out as what I thought was going to be a simple music review turned into a kind of treatise on what it has meant to live and move in this particular kind of body—a Black man’s body—in the…

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