Troubled Waters

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Ever since slave ships were followed by sharks across the Atlantic Ocean, there has been a deeply troubled relationship between the Black community in America and water. Porsha Olayiwola's passionate and powerful poem "Water" addresses—in a torrential outpouring of rage—this systemic weaponization of water against her community.