Something Like RightZay's ma always said his mouth would get him in trouble. Sure enough, it got him into his first and only fight in his junior year of high school. Expelled from his district, Zay's only hope for redemption is to transfer to Broadlawn Alternative School and complete the year. Zay isn't thrilled about the disgusting school lunch and classroom trailers at Broadlawn, and boarding with his aunt Mel and her live in boyfriend isn't the greatest. But he'd

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and from receiving beatings from state troopers

In her most famous spoken-word poem

Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies

spanning from the publication of The Fire Next Time in 1963 to that of No Name in the Street in 1972

survived the trap

and the births of six children

so what were the chances

She was a shadow

Despite fierce prejudice and abuse

she spends her days having tea with a catatonic sister-in-law and evenings at Elias's side

Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks--those that are honest about the past and those that are not--that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history