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A New Card Game Asks, 'Who's Blacker?'

What does it mean to be black? What does it mean to be blacker?
Trading Races, a new game by Kenyatta Forbes, asks players to talk about what it means to be black.

If you had to rank Harriet Tubman and Kanye West in order of blackness, who would be first? Who's blacker, Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr.?

These are the type of questions a new card game, Trading Races, asks players to ponder. The rules are simple: Each player gets five

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