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The New York Times published a new episode of "The Ezra Klein Show" about race, gender, class, and social status, guest hosted by the show's senior editor Rogé Karma.
American Girl dolls started as a way to teach American history to children, creating dolls with deep character backstories. A new character, Claudie, is a young girl growing up during the Harlem Renaissance.
Please join KPBS and our partners for a special live event with Brit Bennett, author of our 2022 One Book, One San Diego adult selection, "The Vanishing Half."A #1 New York Times Bestseller, "The Vanishing Half" is a historical fiction novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family—from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s—Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family st...
After almost ten years of no new historical American Girl doll, the company announced Claudie Wells — a child of the Harlem Renaissance!