Debbie D. (debbiemd) reviewed on 7/26/2020

This was on Kate's AP Lang summer reading list. It is written by a black man to his black son and talks about growing up black in America. It is not easy reading. Growing up in the poor neighborhoods of Baltimore as a black boy, having to learn to navigate the streets, and your primary concern being protection of your body to stay safe, stay alive. Going to Howard University and expanding your horizons, seeing people with black skin in many different ways. Moving to New York and expanding your horizons yet again. But at the base of it all is cops still killing black men and racism in America.

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