NoorAnwuli Okwudili prefers to be called AO. To her, these initials have always stood for Artificial Organism. AO has never really felt natural, and that's putting it lightly. Her parents spent most of the days before she was born praying for her peaceful passing because even in utero she was wrong. But she lived. Then came the car accident years later that disabled her even further. Yet instead of viewing her strange body the way the world views it, as

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when the promise of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America were challenged by the election of Donald Trump

Black people are subjected to unjustifiable racial profiling and police brutality

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or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school

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The legends in Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History span centuries and continents