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September 29, 2021

Chanel M. Sutherland's "Umbrella", a Powerful Glimpse of Black Girlhood, Wins 2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize

Chanel M. Sutherland of Montreal has captured the 2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize for her tense and compelling piece "Umbrella", which explores racial microaggressions in a complicated friendship between Sutherland's ...

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