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‘We’re not doing that’: why a Black couple wouldn’t crowdfund to pay off medical debts

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By Noam N. Levey – Black Headline Newswire SUFFOLK, Va. — When Kristie Fields was undergoing treatment for breast cancer nine years ago, she got some unsolicited advice at the hospital: Share your story on the local news, a nurse told her. Viewers would surely send money. Fields, a Navy veteran and former shipyard worker,

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