Author and teacher Torrey Maldonado asked friends and fellow authors, "What does Juneteenth mean to you?"

As some schools are creating new programs to meet the crisis, In Tuscaloosa City (AL) Schools, where summer learning is part of the core educational strategy, an already successful summer program has expanded.

Though they are rarely recognized with merit awards,  licensed content books are hugely popular and often timely—addressing social-emotional issues and, lately, concerns related to the pandemic—and the comfort of familiar TV and movie characters has strong appeal for beginning readers.

From viral video hit series to book deal to young reader's edition, Emmanuel Acho's Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man is doing well. I have a comfortable Q&A with him about the last of these.

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"I feel like our two most recent books both have a bit of resonance with the pandemic." I talk with Eric & Terry Fan about their latest book, its antecedents, and maybe its larger implications too.

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