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In early June, 2020, a week after the murder of George Floyd, the country singer Mickey Guyton released “Black Like Me,” a tender piano ballad about deep and relentless racial alienation.

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The sultry voice and sunglasses of the singer called H.E.R. had everybody nodding their head ... But communities of color have a lower survival rate. For Black Americans, the 5-year survival rate is ...

"I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look." The singer went on to lose 100 lbs, and got down to a size 6, while finding something ...