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Author Jacqueline Woodson responds to the cruel "joke" made when she was introduced last week for the National Book Foundation, National Book Awards. We highly recommend dropping everything to read and share the full op-ed, here: http://nyti.ms/1uUd5GO. Woodson concludes: "This mission is what’s been passed down to me — to write stories that have been historically absent in this country’s body of literature, to create mirrors for the people who so rarely see themselves inside contemporary fiction, and windows for those who think we are no more than the stereotypes they’re so afraid of. To give young people — and all people — a sense of this country’s brilliant and brutal history, so that no one ever thinks they can walk onto a stage one evening and laugh at another’s too often painful past." Full op-ed here: http://nyti.ms/1uUd5GO (By the way, Woodson's "Brown Girl Dreaming" is on Teaching for Change's list of best books of 2014: http://bit.ly/1uU8ZOV) 
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Author Jacqueline Woodson responds to the cruel "joke" made when she was introduced last week for the National Book Foundation, National Book Awards. We highly recommend dropping everything to read and share the full op-ed, here: http://nyti.ms/1uUd5GO. Woodson concludes: "This mission is what’s been passed down to me — to write stories that have been historically absent in this country’s body of literature, to create mirrors for the people who so rarely see themselves inside contemporary fiction, and windows for those who think we are no more than the stereotypes they’re so afraid of. To give young people — and all people — a sense of this country’s brilliant and brutal history, so that no one ever thinks they can walk onto a stage one evening and laugh at another’s too often painful past." Full op-ed here: http://nyti.ms/1uUd5GO (By the way, Woodson's "Brown Girl Dreaming" is on Teaching for Change's list of best books of 2014: http://bit.ly/1uU8ZOV)

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