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Obama speechwriter’s memoir ‘Grace’ to come out in 2022

Hillel Italie, AP National WriterFebruary 4, 2021

The White House speechwriter who helped President Barack Obama work on his response to the Charleston church massacre in June 2015 has a book deal. Cody Keenan’s memoir is set around the time a white supremacist murdered nine Black parishioners in South Carolina.“Grace: A President, His Speechwriter, and Ten Days in the Battle for America” will be published in Fall 2022, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media announced Tuesday.

Black Students Home Language Must Be Honored
Larry AubryOpinion

Black Students Home Language Must Be Honored

Larry AubryNovember 23, 2017

Those groups and individuals interested in improving educational outcomes for Black children should understand the devastating impact of the neglect and degradation Black students have always suffered, and often simply because of the way they speak.

MLK: Beyond Vietnam Speech 50 Years Later
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MLK: Beyond Vietnam Speech 50 Years Later

Kimberlee Buck, Staff WriterApril 5, 2017

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke his first public antiwar speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” in front of 3,000 people at Riverside Church in New York City.