Shady Side Academy senior Eliyah Roberts ’20 read her award-winning poem “An Ode to the Dark Skin Black Girl” at a Senior School assembly on Jan. 24, 2020.
The poem won second place in the High School Poetry category of Carnegie Mellon University’s 20th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Writing Awards.
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