It's hard to find children's books with Black characters, so a coach's family wrote its own
By EMILY GIAMBALVO | The Washington Post | Published: February 18, 2021 Years ago, when two of Tierra Haynes' three children were still toddlers and the family lived in Toledo, she shuttled her kids around in a minivan with a DVD player in the back seat. The youngest two boys, Devon and Dallas, loved "Mr. Peabody & Sherman," repeatedly watching the movie that follows a boy and a dog as they time travel to visit historical figures. One day, Haynes thought to herself: Why do these characters rarely meet anybody Black? Around the same time, Haynes' oldest son, DeAndre Jr., realized he was...
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