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'The Talk' is a graphic memoir about the experiences of Black children and parents

'The Talk' is a graphic memoir about the experiences of Black children and parents

FromNPR's Book of the Day


'The Talk' is a graphic memoir about the experiences of Black children and parents

FromNPR's Book of the Day

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Length:
8 minutes
Released:
Jun 15, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

When Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Darrin Bell was six years old, he had an encounter with a police officer. That event, which he kept secret for much of his life, reaffirmed "the talk" he'd just had with his mother about the way white people and systems of power can cast hostility and harm onto Black children. That conversation – the way it shaped his own childhood, schooling and adulthood – is at the heart of Bell's new graphic memoir, The Talk. He spoke with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about his own approach to discussing race and how it's led him to parent his own child.
Released:
Jun 15, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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