Poet Asha Ransby-Sporn
Brown Girl Grows Up Black by Asha Ransby-Sporn
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Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Length: 02:43
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Poet Asha Ransby-Sporn, 17, is a senior at University of Chicago Laboratory High School. This is her first year participating in Louder Than a Bomb. Brown Girl Grows Up Black poetically recants Asha's ancestry given her mother's adoption as a child.
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