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Shell Fischer is a journalist based in Brooklyn. The initial chapter of her first novel, The Joy of Mom, about the Sexual Revolution as seen through the eyes of a 10-year-old girl, won the 2009 Bronx Center for the Arts Chapter One Award.
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The Hush on Abortion
What the silence surrounding black abortion rates says about race relations in America.
Shell Fischer