#158 Black Lives Matter for Middle Schoolers

The Longest Shortest Time | May 11, 2018

In the novel Ghost Boys, a twelve-year-old unarmed black boy is shot by a white police officer. Jewell Parker Rhodes talks about why she wrote this story for middle schoolers, and why she's counting on them to advance racial justice.

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