By Micha Green AFRO D.C. and Digital Editor mgreen@afro.com As their last hurrah before mating then dying weeks later, up to 1.4 million Brood X cicadas per acre are expected to emerge in May 2021 after 17 years of development underground. They come in droves and die in a little over a month, but it’s […]

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