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Into America

Take a Look, it's in a (Banned) Book

Into America

Trymaine Lee, MS NOW

Blm, News Commentary, Cultural, Society & Culture, Trymaine Lee, Black Lives Matter, Culture, Breonna Taylor, Politics, History, Documentary, Msnbc, Covid-19, News, Justice, Government, Policy, Social, George Floyd, Society, Health, Versant, Ms Now

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jerry Craft wrote 'New Kid' based on his life. Then it got banned. Plus, Trymaine Lee's daughter on representation in books.

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0:00.0

Hi.

0:01.0

How are you?

0:02.0

I'm good.

0:03.0

Good.

0:04.0

Good.

0:05.0

I got surprised.

0:06.0

I just wanted to draw a picture for you.

0:07.0

Do you draw?

0:08.0

I draw a little bit.

0:09.0

I usually do like this for you.

0:10.0

I was on YouTube.

0:11.0

But I do draw kind of.

0:12.0

This is my nine year old daughter, Nola.

0:24.0

And on the other end of the Zoom call is the author and illustrator, Jerry Kraft.

0:29.0

She's sharing a screen and showing us how he draws the characters from his award-winning

0:33.3

graphic novel, New Kid.

0:35.9

So I did my circle by doing a letter U and upside down letter U. And there's a number

0:41.4

11.

0:43.2

And this is like a little box shape.

0:45.1

What character is this?

0:46.1

Well, you're going to see.

0:47.8

Right now, doesn't look like anyone does it?

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