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From KQED in San Francisco. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. What does it mean for a generation of young people to come of age seeing other young black people routinely

endangered, attacked, or killed. That's a question that propels Elizabeth Alexander's new book

of essays titled The Trayvon Generation, on what has shaped those who grew up in the past 25

years, including her two sons, and what they now face. The racework of the generations of my great-grandparents, my grandparents, my parents, and myself,

she writes, is the work of our children's generation.

We'll talk with Alexander about where the Trayvon Generation finds its joy.

This is Forum.

I'm Mina Kim.

In her latest book of essays, poet and author Elizabeth Alexander turns her attention to young people who grew up in the last 25 years, to her two sons, who are part of what she calls the Trayvon generation.

I believe that this generation is more vulnerable and traumatized than the last, she writes, about those who've always known stories like Trayvons and George Floyd's and Brianna Taylor's and Philando Castiles and

on and on. I want my children to be free, says Alexander, who joins me now. Elizabeth Alexander,

welcome to Forum. I'm so happy to be here. Thank you for inviting me to talk. Well, really glad to have you here. And I actually want to start, not by asking about your sons, but by asking you first about your dad, because you describe him as a very free black man. You write that my father is a very free black man, and once you have been

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