Kekla Magoon is the award-winning author of many novels and nonfiction books for kids and teens, including How It Went Down, The Season of Styx Malone, and her newest, Revolution In Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People.
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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:
- Norma Fox Mazer, author of The Missing Girl, Good Night Maman, Missing Pieces, and many more
- Vermont College for Fine Arts’ MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults
- Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (listen to this excellent interview with him on The Stacks podcast)
- Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
- Blackbirds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert, author of Pointe, Little & Lion, The Only Black Girls in Town, and The Voting Booth. Hear Brandy’s First Draft interviews here, here, and here!
- African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History by Tracey Baptiste
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- Jason Reynolds, three-time National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and author of All American Boys (co-written with Brendan Kiely [listen to his First Draft interview here]), As Brave as You, For Every One, the Track series, Look Both Ways, Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You and Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. Hear his First Draft interview here, and his appearance with Christina Hammonds-Reed, author of The Black Kids, here.
- Kim Johnson, college administrator and mentor of student activists, on her debut author of This is My America.
- Koa Beck, former editor-in-chief of Jezebel and co-host of “The #MeToo Memos” on WNYC’s The Takeaway, discusses her debut non-fiction work, White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind. Hear her First Draft interview here.
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