I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is

then sweaty armpits because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps

and heath and you get to the top and you're like and then you can see the breath

but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

This is a word a podcast from Slate. I'm your host Jason Johnson. It's Black History Month

and this year more than ever. Telling the truth about Black History to American kids

has become a revolutionary act. But for attorney and father, Bricari Sellers, it's a necessary one.

In the pages of the book, you know we had images of individuals throughout our history

where you as a parent could tell them what Muhammad Ali did. What Mary McClaubatoon did.

What Stacey Abrams or Kamala. What Dr. King did.

Bricari Sellers on his new children's book, Who Are Your People?

Coming up on a word with me Jason Johnson. Stay with us.

Welcome to a word a podcast about race, impolitics and everything else. I'm your host Jason Johnson.

During Black History Month, schools often try out the same ragged posters of a handful of African

American heroes and sanitized versions of their lives and experiences. That's why so many Black

parents feel the need to educate our children about their history on their own. It's a tradition

that feels even more urgent as honest academic lessons about racism are under threat.

It's something that attorney Bricari Sellers understands too well. As a political commentator on CNN,

he's a keen observer of how race and teaching the truth about racism has come under partisan attack.

And as a dad, he's working to ensure that his children understand their history.

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