West Side Radio Book Talk: “The Hate U Give”
A live podcast talking with the West High Diversity Book Club as they discuss “The Hate U Give.”
In 2017 only nine percent of children’s books published in the United States had featured a black main character.
— Mrs. Hofmockel (2:24 - 3:00)
The authors used to say that the publishers would tell them when they gave them a book to read ‘Oh we already have a story of a black man playing basketball’ , there wasn’t a lot of choices back then for black characters.
— Mrs. Belding (3:02-3:24)
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