featuring the "Juice" singer. The video was taken in 2017, back when both Awkwafina and Lizzo were hustling hard as rising stars. By that time, Awkwafina had already become a breakout sensation thanks to her memorable supporting role inNeighbors 2: Sorority Risingand her Comedy Central ShowTawk adding that the need for intersectionality is crucial: "In actuality, the population of the U.S. counts more women than men, and bisexual people make up the majority of the LGBTQ community. It’s long past time for television to introduce more diverse LGBTQ characters on multiple levels." But there are also other truths about our city that we must confront. New Orleans was America’s largest slave market: a port where hundreds of thousands of souls were brought, sold and shipped up the Mississippi River to lives of forced labor of misery of rape, of torture. America was the place where nearly 4,000 of our fellow citizens were lynched, 540 alone in Louisiana; where the courts enshrined ‘separate but equal’; where Freedom riders coming to New Orleans were beaten to a bloody pulp. Another friend asked me to consider these four monuments from the perspective of an African American mother or father trying to explain to their fifth grade daughter who Robert E. Lee is and why he stands atop of our beautiful city. Can you do it?