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Stop Making Black Kids Read These Old-Timey Books. Consider These Black Books Instead

Por: The Root Opinion July 23, 2024

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In plenty of schools around the country, students have been reading the same books for decades. Besides being just plain boring, we can’t ignore that most of these books, which are often considered classics, don’t exactly reflect Black people’s lived experience in America.nnAlthough some US schools are attempting to add diverse titles into the mix, conservatives are working overtime to ban books that talk about slavery or anything else... + full article



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