Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist Darrin Bell on 'The Talk' Black Parents Face with Their Kids

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Jul 10, 2023

When Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Darrin Bell was young, he asked his mother for a realistic looking water gun. When she explained to him why, as a young Black boy, it was dangerous for him to have one, it was the first time Bell's eyes were opened to the racism he would face for the rest of his life. Bell chronicles this moment, and other moments of prejudice and discrimination throughout his life, in the new graphic memoir The Talk.

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