"All That I Could Say" by Lauren Summers

a rage exploded inside me

North Carolina writer Lauren Summers recounts in spoken word performance her encounters with overt racism among her peers throughout her schooling. (This episode includes brief explicit language and racial epithets.)

Lauren Summers is a writer and poet from Greensboro, North Carolina, a recent graduate from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro with a B.A. in English and minor in German. While she enjoys writing speculative fiction, her poetry often deals with themes of love, loss, self-reflection, and hope. She plans to pursue her MFA and thereafter publish.