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Crystal Good

Crystal Good is finally in recovery from many ƙɑɾʍíϲ lessons.

Crystal is hard to put in one category, the poet and performer prefers: artist, advocate, entrepreneur. She is a three-time Ted-X talker, Affrilachian Folkreporter building BlackbyGod.org, author of a poetry collection titled, “Valley Girl" and is a known US Supreme Court nominee dissenter.

She serves in the completely made up but totally real office of Social Media Senator For The Digital District Of West Virginia and sells panties on the internet: BoomBoomPanties.com

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Meet the 5 women uprooting white beauty standards and white supremacy in West Virginia

by Crystal Good May 11, 2021May 12, 2021

After a rally in support of the CROWN Act, five Black women gather in a beauty salon to talk about why America needs a law to protect natural hair.

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Consuming Blackness in 'progressive' West Virginia

by Crystal Good March 5, 2021
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In Appalachia, the face of addiction is white—and so is the story of recovery

by Crystal Good February 26, 2021April 6, 2021
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Behind the scenes in Black Appalachia

by Crystal Good December 23, 2020December 23, 2020

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