'Black characters are still revolutionary’: writers talk

[gpw]

You know, it's funny, I was just listening to the story today about the former teacher who is leaving books in barbershops for black boys to read. I thought of a lot of the YA/kid lit that is popular out there and none (that I can think of) has a black boy as the protagonist. Now, I don't profess to be up on YA lit or kid lit, so I could be totally off, but I was thinking about my nephew and how he's starting reading dragon/fantasy books and started wondering if there were these kinds of books with black protagonists. It would make the characters so much more relatable.

I think the name of the program is "Barbershop Books".