How black was Harry and Meghan’s royal wedding?

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Michael Curry, Meghan Markle, and Doria Ragland.

Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Steve Parsons/AFP/Getty Images; Lars Borges/Kensington Palace via Getty Images; Chris Jackson/Getty Images; Gareth Fuller/AFP/Getty Images)

On this episode of Represent, Slate producer Veralyn Williams and Robin M. Boylorn, an associate professor at the University of Alabama and member of the Crunk Feminist Collective, unpack the blackness of Harry and Meghan’s wedding, from Doria Ragland’s dreadlocks to Bishop Michael Curry’s sermon.

Then, podcast producer Renay Richardson gives her perspective on the royal wedding as a black British woman and explains how she believes it will change how the monarchy thinks about race.

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