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Angie Thomas’s “The Hate U Give,” a best-selling book and film adaption, weaves together action, comedy, friendship and romance while touching on prevalent forms of racism deeply rooted in ...
Modern literature that may soon shape classrooms - powerful books tackling identity, trauma, technology, and culture with ...
The Decatur Book Festival (DBF) will celebrate its 20th anniversary Oct. 3-4 with keynote speaker Saeed Jones and “kidnote” speaker Angie Thomas. Angie Thomas will deliver this year’s “kidnote” ...
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Cultural critic-poet-memoirist Saeed Jones has been announced as Decatur Book Festival’s keynote speaker. Novelist Angie Thomas will give the "kidnote" talk.
Part of becoming an ally is educating yourself. These 16 movies and TV shows are a good first step in learning about systemic racism in the US.
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The push to sanitize school collections erases what literature is for: knowledge, discovery, the freedom to think ...