A Light for the World to See: Kwame Alexander on Race, Justice, Poetry, and Hope

Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry

Peace By Peace Productions

News, Politics

3.1 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In the week before this episode airs, the sickness and violence in our country again came into harsh focus. An insurrection, spurred by the delusional, hateful, and outgoing President of the United States resulted in five deaths and the desecration of the seat of our government.

This episode has healing. This episode has magic. This episode has Kwame Alexander.

Kwame Alexander is the New York Times Bestselling author of 32 books, including THE UNDEFEATED, HOW TO READ A BOOK, THE WRITE THING, SWING, REBOUND, which was shortlisted for prestigious Carnegie Medal, and, his NEWBERY medal-winning middle grade novel, THE CROSSOVER. He’s also the Founding Editor of VERSIFY, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt that aims to Change the World One Word at a Time. His new book Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope is now available.

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1:03.9	Hi, I'm Alyssa Molano and this is Sorry Not Sorry.
1:30.0	I am so excited about today's guest I can't even tell you.
1:33.3	My guest is Kwame Alexander.
1:35.8	Kwame is a poet, educator and award-winning author of more than 30 books for children
1:42.0	and adults.
1:43.0	His newest book, Light for the World to See, A Thousand Words on Race and Hope is now available.
1:52.9	When I was a child I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor and a king.
2:02.9	The first two didn't work out too well.
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