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Four writers reshape their beliefs on work, activism, and race. A year of changed minds
Four writers reshape their beliefs on work, activism, and race. Updated: March 7, 2021 - 8:05 AM
Opinion COVID-19 has changed life as we know it. The pandemic has been defined by loss; it is also pushing us to remake systems, environments, and habits that aren’t working. The Inquirer turned to four writers to hear about beliefs they traded in recent years for new ones and that they hope to see others reconsider through this pandemic.
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Desiree LaMarr-Murphy at the food pantry she runs out of her home in Upper Darby. (Jose F. Moreno/Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)
Hungry as a child, she now uses her own house as a food pantry
PHILADELPHIA Desiree’ LaMarr-Murphy grew up without enough food.
Back in the mid-1980s, school days were the hardest, when she’d sit without lunch in the cafeteria of the former William B. Mann Elementary School (now Mastery Charter Mann Elementary) in the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia, watching other kids eat.
Years later, after life improved a bit, an apartment fire left her and her children temporarily homeless and dependent on church-donated food that was lovingly bestowed but spoiled and inedible.
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