Black American Author Dwight Watkins Thinks Children in Impoverished Neighbourhoods Starved for Books by and About People Like Them
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When you learn how to think critically, you learn how to make good decisions. When you learn how to make good decisions, ‘you can do the right things with your life — Dwight Watkins’ author Dwight Watkins, the answer teens in Kerry Graham’s English attempt to rectify what he says is a falling-down rowhouses. By Mary Carole might include an HBO fi lm crew, class at Patterson High School. serious oversight by other authors Watkins said he’s not attempting presentations by a neighbourhood “It’s the only way you can grow who address those topics. to be the voice of his community, nachos czar and an internet radio as a critical thinker. When you Too often, he writes, intellectuals but he feels qualifi ed to be a voice. McCauley personality, a free lunch and boxes learn how to think critically, you take “a drone approach” when He grew up and still lives in East fi lled with 1,000 copies of the learn how to make good decisions. commenting about economically Baltimore. He has written about author’s newly released third book, When you learn how to make good disadvantaged communities. In his the murder of his older brother and ow do you inspire kids We Speak for Ourselves: A Word decisions, you can do the right view, these middle-class pundits — of the period of his life when he ran living in impoverished from Forgotten Black America. things with your life.” some black and some white — hover a successful drug operation.