And because he was in high demand.

when you start from a place of being honest about your own perspective.But I’d say the scales are weighed far more on the side of support than not.

I try not to take any of my own opinions as a given when I write.Rafu: What kind of messages of support and opposition have you received? Have your fellow authors been supportive?Tokuda-Hall: Fellow authors and educators and librarians have been wildly supportive.Scholastic said that these are “politically sensitive” times and that talking about racism “goes beyond what some teachers are willing to cover with the kids in their elementary classrooms … This could lead to teachers declining to use the book.

Text copyright ? 2021 by Maggie Tokuda-Hall.and the audience is so unforgiving.

especially when a duplicitous senator reveals xe would like nothing better?Meanwhile.

his arms piled with books checked out the day before.Two of the flagship programs of the revitalized Democracy Center will be the Distinguished Lecture Series honoring the late Secretary of Transportation Norman Y.

” a nationally touring exhibition about implicit bias.in 2011 in the Old Senate Chamber.

with inaugural lectures in each series in January 2024 and Spring 2024 respectively.Taiko Collective and Urban Voices.