What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues Summer Age Range: 8 - 14

Age Range:    8 - 14

full-color keepsake collection

adorable illustrations of girls with gorgeous braids

trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do

What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues Summer Age Range: 8 - 14An African American writer's concise, heartfelt take on the state of his nation, exploring the war between the values he has always held and the reality with which he is confronted in twenty first century America. In the tradition of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and Ta Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me comes Clifford Thompson's What It Is. Thompson was raised to believe in treating every person of every color as an individual, and he