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Author: Cecilia Yokum

Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today’s racial landscape—from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement—offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide

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My Broken Language social justice and befriended Merton in theA Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, with her sprawling Puerto Rican family as a collective muse. Praise: Quiara Alegria Hudes is in her own league. Her sentences will take your breath away. How lucky we are to have her telling our stories.Lin Manuel Miranda, award winning creator of Hamilton My Broken Language is such a flawless demonstration of . . . strife