Example Sentences

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So it became about the place — the real and imagined places of fugitivity for escaping African Americans.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2023

By the time I got to making this work about the Underground Railroad and Black fugitivity, I’d become very comfortable with where the two sides, the top and bottom, are of a landscape photograph.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2023

And I think in the kind of migration that we’re seeing now to the South, among Black folks, there is an aspect of fugitivity.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2023