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Watch: Alison Désir, the Running Activist
As a child, Alison Désir was given the nickname “Powdered Feet.” “It actually comes from the Haitian Creole saying, ‘You never see the person, just the footprints of where they’ve been in powder,’” Désir tells The Root. But Désir hasn’t always been a distance runner. In fact, she found running after a bout of depression.…