Why everyone’s saying ‘Black Girls are Magic’

By Dexter Thomaswriter

Sept. 9, 2015 4:55 PM PT

It’s been almost two years since CaShawn Thompson told the world that black girls are “magic.”

But not everyone has gotten the message.

Dexter Thomas is from San Bernardino and is a PhD candidate in East Asian studies at Cornell University. He has taught media studies and Japanese and is writing a book about Japanese hip-hop. Thomas began working in new media as a student director of programming at KUCR-FM (88.3), independently producing podcasts as well as music and news programs. He has written for several outlets internationally on topics as diverse as Internet and youth culture, social justice and video games. He left The Times in 2016.

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