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Paige Gray

Julius Vance, Laville Williams, and Allen Ware stand and smile while selling the Chicago Defender, the leading African American newspaper in 1982 (The Abbott Sengstacke Family Papers/Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)

When Black kids — shut out world of children’s literature — took matters into their own hands

Paige Gray
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1257964p1.html'>Alan Bailey</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Is “grit” really the appropriate response to “coddling” in the classroom?

Paige Gray