At this moment of renewed attention to Black Lives Matter in response to the police killing of George Floyd, our thoughts have turned to the story line of Kekla Magoon’s book “How It Went Down,” a 2014 young-adult novel about a white man killing a young Black boy. We had read it together in a class last fall and had appreciated how the multiple voices in the book fostered understanding of the many different people touched by the shooting and of how a community could come [...]
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