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Ruby Dee

Most people don’t know that I started out as an intern for Black Issues Book Review.

It was the summer after I finished graduate school and I was looking to rest my mind and write and New York was the place I decided would be best for that. A school colleague, Cori Murray, heard about the internship opportunity and passed it along to me. For two months, I worked for the sum total of a monthly-unlimited MetroCard and all the free books I could handle.

One of the books that came to the office was an audio book of Their Eyes Were Watching God written by Zora Neal Hurston, read by Ms Ruby Dee. The publicist called the office multiple times to see if the magazine wanted to do an interview. Because I had a background in journalism, they let me do it. The publicist had her call the office and as I answered the phone, “Black Issues Book Review,” on the other end responded, “Yes, this is Ruby Dee for Michelle Gipson.”

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