Jamaal Lemon is a writer, photographer, podcaster, and he wrote his piece, “Mutated Anxieties — Living (and Parenting) While Black in the Face of Law Enforcement and COVID-19,” in under an hour. It’s impressive enough to write a full-length article in such little time, but even more so because the connections Jamaal makes are incredibly deep and nuanced—between United States history, his own lineage, protests for civil rights, and the disproportionate effects of COVID-19 on Black people in America
