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Topic: Best Of 2020

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I tried to call my mother to say goodbye

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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The collapse of Seattle's CHOP/CHAZ

Sean Edwards, Gabe Fuente
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Philadelphia's deadly MOVE bombing & me

Mike Africa Jr.
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George Floyd and the white gaze

Niki Herd
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They arrested me for playing basketball

Darryl Robertson
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"Low class" Donald Trump and the Wasps

Nell Beram
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Marriage in the time of coronavirus

Jeannine Hall Gailey
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COVID-19's threat to aging prisoners

Todd Oppenheim
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How I stole my bike back

Keith A. Spencer
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo gives his a press briefing about the coronavirus crisis on April 17, 2020 in Albany, New York | Photo of writer as a child with her father (Photo illustration by Salon/family photo courtesy of author/Getty Images)

Watching Cuomo, grieving my father

Gina Gionfriddo
Sujata Day (Photo illustration by Salon/Greggywawa Photography)

Being a so-called "unicorn" in Hollywood

Sujata Day