It Can't Be a Soundbite With Kekla Magoon

First Draft Episode #335: Kekla Magoon

Kekla Magoon is the award-winning author of many novels and
nonfiction books for kids and teens, including How It Went Down,
The Season of Styx Malone, and her newest, Revolution In Our
Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People.


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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:




Norma Fox Mazer, author of The Missing Girl, Good Night
Maman, Missing Pieces, and many more




Vermont College for Fine Arts’ MFA in Writing for Children
and Young Adults




Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (listen to this
excellent interview with him on The Stacks podcast)




Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo




Blackbirds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert, author of Pointe,
Little & Lion, The Only Black Girls in Town, and The
Voting Booth. Hear Brandy’s First Draft interviews here,
here, and here!




African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History by Tracey
Baptiste




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Jason Reynolds, three-time
National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and author
of All American Boys (co-written with Brendan Kiely [listen
to his First Draft interview here]), As Brave as You, For
Every One, the Track series, Look Both Ways, Stamped: Racism,
Anti-Racism, and You and Long Way Down, which received a
Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King
Honor. Hear his First Draft interview here, and his
appearance with Christina Hammonds-Reed, author of The Black
Kids, here.




Kim Johnson, college
administrator and mentor of student activists, on her debut
author of This is My America.




Koa Beck, former
editor-in-chief of Jezebel and co-host of “The #MeToo Memos”
on WNYC’s The Takeaway, discusses her debut non-fiction work,
White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who
They Leave Behind. Hear her First Draft interview here.




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