| The Montgomery Bus Boycott is something a lot of us learn about in grade school (at least, we used to, before, you know…) But those lessons often gloss over the nitty gritty of what it takes to make an act of political resistance happen. So this week on the pod, we’re getting into all the intimate detail with the women who were central to organizing the boycott – from Claudette Colvin to Rosa Parks to Jo Ann Robinson to Coretta Scott King. |
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WHAT KEEPS YOU UP AT NIGHT |
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Each week, I’ll feature a comment from a newsletter reader about what’s keeping y’all up at night. This week, we’re hearing from Tanita S. Davis, in California's East Bay:
“I'm a children's book author - and I see the Civil Rights struggle of our time as the current battle over books. Of course, it's not really about books... data from the Cooperative Children's Book Center and the ALA show a correlation between an increase in representation from marginalized voices and an increase in book challenges and bans. While children's lit historically tends to be an industry with more than its share of hysterical gatekeeping, in the run up to the election year, for us as writers it has gotten even more intensely polarizing and exhausting as so many of us work to make connections and schedule school visits and book fairs, and then... wonder if we'll still have work, as we see ourselves or colleagues being UNscheduled.
It feels like it's a game that's played on behalf of imaginary children whom the banners never see and are little interested in, but who are nevertheless fiercely "protected." I don't know where this is going to end... that keeps ME up at night.” |
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OK fam, I know I missed some stuff. So this week, I want to know: What do you think were Trump’s most memorable treatment of race and identity? What parts of his legacy should we remember when we think about voting him into office for a second presidential term? And: What else is keeping you up at night? Email us at CodeSwitch@npr.org. Inquiring minds want to know.
I’ll be back next week. In the meantime, stay warm.
Leah Donnella, senior editor |
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Written by Leah Donnella and edited by Dalia Mortada |
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