Zakiya
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Rep. Zakiya Summers, a Democrat from Jackson, served as an election commissioner before winning a House seat in 2019.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2024
Zakiya Dalila Harris' debut novel, the basis for Hulu's 10-episode series, accurately captures the stress of working while Black in a primarily white industry because she's lived it.
From Salon • Sep. 13, 2023
Four years ago, Zakiya Dalila Harris quit her job to as an editor at Knopf Doubleday to do something that, at the time, even she thought was crazy: write a novel.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023
“It’ll capture the crime, but it’s not preventing the crime,” Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, Montgomery County community member and co-founder of “Racial Justice NOW!,” said in an interview.
From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2022
He and his brother Luay and sister Zakiya were playing with their brother Mohammed, eighteen years older.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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