Author Neesha Powell-Ingabire grew up in the small coastal city of Brunswick, Georgia, a town now best known as the place where white vigilantes killed a Black man named Ahmaud Arbery.
When a young Powell-Ingabire lived there, decades before Arbery’s murder, she felt alienated as a Black queer girl, and soon left the area to build her life elsewhere.
Now, the accomplished journalist and activist is reflecting on her time in Brunswick, and in her new book, “Come by Here, A Memoir in Essays from Georgia Geechee Coast,” Ingabire is reconnecting and reckoning with her personal and cultural history.
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