Over the past few years, reports of police brutality against black Americans—and the resulting Black Lives Matter movement—have galvanized different people in different ways. For American Studies professor Duchess Harris, that meant writing a textbook aimed at middle and high schoolers. "I live in Minnesota, so I have lots of white friends who have come up to me and said, 'How do we explain this to our kids?'" explains Harris, who is black and teaches at Macalester University in St. Paul. Her book,Black Lives Matter, which comes out in November, was her answer.
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