A Conversation About Difficult Conversations With Jelani Memory

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Jelani Memory, author of “A Kids Book About Racism” and founder of A Kids Book About publishing company, hosts a conversation about race and how to have conversations about difficult topics with kids. Jelani, a black man married to a white woman, has a blended family of 6 kids and the topic of race comes up often. Jelani wrote a straight-forward book about it called “A Kids Book About Racism” that sparked conversation and interest from all of his adult friends because it gave kids and adults permission to talk about such a difficult topic.

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