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🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Dani McClain is an author and journalist, who's new book We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood is an examination of parenting, community, and social justice. Today we discuss advocating for one's self as a privilege, how non-parents can aid in the work of parenting, and about what books we would and wouldn't teaching in school.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your |
| 0:12.2 | host Tracy Thomas and today we have |
| 0:13.9 | journalist and author of the book We Live for the We The Political Power of Black |
| 0:18.0 | Motherhood, Danny McClain. Today we talk with Danny about her amazing book, Social Justice and Raising Children, |
| 0:25.4 | Reproductive Rights, The Maternal Mortality Crisis, and a whole lot more. |
| 0:29.7 | Then we move from Danny's writing to her reading and discuss the book she loves, the authors |
| 0:34.2 | she admires and the things she would assign if she were a school teacher. You can |
| 0:38.5 | connect with Danny and the Stacks in the show notes and you can find details to |
| 0:42.2 | everything we discussed on today's |
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| 1:28.0 | and maybe some that just weren't for you. |
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