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A Childhood Under Siege: What It Means to Grow Up as a Black Boy in Suburban America

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In 1976, when I entered kindergarten at Webster Elementary in Maplewood, I quickly learned that my schoolmates were far more interested in the color of my skin than of my slightly gray tooth, and in touching the short Afro I sported. Every morning, Mom styled my hair with a black hair pick with metal teeth […]
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