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[INTERVIEW]
Tonya Lewis Lee:
She Got Her Own

SPIKE LEE’S WIFE SEEKS TO CHANGE THE WAY WE SEE OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER THROUGH FILMS, BOOKS AND ONLINE CAMPAIGNS

By Brooke Obie Contributing Editor, EBONY.com

Tonya Lewis Lee is a very busy woman. The former corporate attorney is a best-selling author, a television and documentary producer, multi-media production company owner and recently became a spokesperson for the CDC's Office of Minority Health’s Infant Mortality Awareness project -- in addition to being a wife and mother of two. Recently, she shared with EBONY how exactly she keeps it balanced and how she's…

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