All American Boys feat. Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

For Colored Nerds

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4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, B & E sit down with Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely, who co-wrote All American Boys, a YA novel about police brutality from the point of view of two teenage boys, one black and one white. For more on their book: http://bit.ly/2dqmPvA Here's a list of the authors and books named by Jason and Brendan at the end of the show: - White Like Me by Tim Wise - Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko - The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin - The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward - How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon - The Hate U Give by A.C (Angela) Thomas - Dear Martin by Nic Stone - Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older - American Street by Ibi Zuboi - Jackie Woodson’s children’s books See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Eric.
0:12.0	And I am Brittany.
0:12.9	And we are for colored nerds.
0:14.8	The conversations that black people have.
0:16.9	When white people aren't in the room, except today.
0:21.2	Whoops, got changed the premise.
0:23.5	It's a little different.
0:25.4	So, I mean, now the cat's out of the bag.
0:27.8	Cats out of the bag.
0:29.4	Today is an important day.
0:31.0	Today's an important day.
0:32.1	For several reasons.
0:33.1	Yes, for many reasons.
0:34.7	One of those reasons being that we have our first white guest on the show.
0:42.0	So, uh, he did not come unattended, though. Yes. But we have two guests here today. And because we want to actually get to talk to them pretty quickly, we're not going to sit around and talk to you about, like, again, what, all the things that aren't happening in our lives.
0:59.6	I don't know what shit going on.
1:00.3	Yeah.
1:00.7	I'm going to Tampa next month for a wedding.
1:02.5	I probably said that last fucking episode.
1:04.0	Yeah.
1:04.3	I mean, I'm going to South Africa.
1:05.4	I'm actually pretty happy.
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