Children and Childhood

Book Review: ‘Malcolm Lives! The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers,’ by Ibram X. Kendi

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MALCOLM LIVES! The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers, by Ibram X. Kendi In my suburban, largely Black high school in 1980s New Jersey, we sang “Life Every Voice and Sing” at assemblies. We decorated the walls with wheat sheafs during Kwanzaa. And what seemed like every year, we read “The Autobiography of … Read more

Book Review: ‘The Family Dynamic,’ by Susan Dominus

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Take the Murguia family: Amalia and Alfredo immigrated from a small region in central Mexico to Kansas City, and had seven children, five of whom shared three beds in one of the house’s two bedrooms. Alfred, one of the older children, excelled academically and was the first in his family to enroll in college — … Read more