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A School District Rejected a Black Authorโs Book About Tulsa for Its Curriculum. Then the Community Decided to Act.
Randi Pink, author of the young adult fiction novel โThe Angel of Greenwood,โ talked to ContrabandCamp about how residents of a Pittsburgh suburb rallied around her book.
โBut when the teachers who worked so hard for a year to deem โAngel of Greenwoodโ a way in to introduce those students to the 1921 history of their country, too, that would've been a bridge into that bubble of a neighborhood. And if you burn the book, you burn that bridge,โ she explained.
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