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Naomi Raquel

Immortality

3 min readApr 11, 2024

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Immortality

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Belonging

Belonging. It is a concept I have pondered my entire life.

2 min readApr 4, 2024

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Belonging

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Naomi Raquel

The Forgetting

3 min readMar 21, 2024

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The Forgetting

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Naomi Raquel

In Defiance of Caste

A week ago today, my mother, brother and I went to see “Origin,” based on Isabel Wilkerson’s book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.

4 min readFeb 6, 2024

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In Defiance of Caste

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From Whence We Came

At dinner last night, my 13-year-old son shared that he and his classmates learned about the “Slave Castles” in Ghana, which held Africans…

2 min readJan 24, 2024

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Naomi Raquel

Sunrise. Sunset.

13. I am now the mama of a teenager.

1 min readDec 3, 2023

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Sunrise. Sunset.

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“Is it the Death of Earth?”

Wednesday, June 7, 2023, is a day New Yorkers will never forget.

4 min readJun 8, 2023

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“Is it the Death of Earth?”

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Parenting in the Time of Guns

Yesterday, March 27, 2023, marked the 131st mass shooting of the year in the United States.

3 min readMar 28, 2023

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Parenting in the Time of Guns

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The Light We Carry

This past weekend my husband, son and I attended my son’s best friend’s Bar Mitzvah.

3 min readMar 20, 2023

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The Light We Carry

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Naomi Raquel

The best books to examine the complexity of identity and to challenge racism at its root

I am the author of Strength of Soul.

4 min readJan 30, 2023

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Naomi Raquel

Naomi Raquel

Bilingual. New Yorker. Multiethnic. Change Agent. Author of “Strength of Soul” (2Leaf Press; University of Chicago Press, April 2019)

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