The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander [Video]

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Kwame Alexanders The Door of No Return is a masterpiece. Affiliate link to purchase the book: https://amzn.to/3EsWuai Book description from the publisher: Dreams are todays answers for tomorrows questions. 11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his fathers father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. Some say he moves like a minnow, not just an ordinary boy so hes hoping to finally prove himself in front of Ama and his friends in a swimming contest against his older, stronger cousin. But before this can take place, a festival comes to the villages of Upper and Lower Kwanta and Kofis brother is chosen to represent Upper Kwanta in the wrestling contest. Encircled by cheering spectators and sounding drums, the two wrestlers from different villages kneel, ready to fight. You are only fine, until you are not. The match is over before it has barely begun, when the unthinkablea sudden deathoccurs The river does not care how grown you are. As his world turns upside down, Kofi soon ends up in a fight for his life. What happens next will send him on a harrowing journey across land and sea, and away from everything he loves. Check out my list of AWESOME 2022 books: https://www.mrcolbysharp.com/2022 ************************* Game Changer! Book Access for All Kids: https://bookshop.org/a/4866/9781338310597 The Creativity Project edited by Colby Sharp (ME!) https://bookshop.org/a/4866/9780316507813 Places to find me: Website: http://www.mrcolbysharp.com Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/colbysharp Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/colbysharp I started a newsletter! Click below to sign up. http://eepurl.com/c_gMYT Thanks for tuning in. Please let me know if I can help you in any way. colbysharp@gmail.com

A civil rights battle with transgender kids caught in the middle.Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In recent years, state legislatures in the US have introduced hundreds of bills targeting the rights of LGBTQ Americans. Many of those laws are focused in particular on the rights of transgender school children in public schools: what types of bathrooms they can use, whether their pronouns will be used, and whether they can participate in school sports. These laws are increasingly common in Republican-controlled states. Also, they may be violations of federal law.This puts public schools in these states in a strange position: do they follow state laws that, under the Biden administration, could open them up to a federal civil rights investigation? Or do they ignore state law, and risk the state cutting their funding? Amid all that uncertainty, those who suffer most are the trans children caught up in the fight. This video focuses on how that battle is playing out in Tennessee, the state that has introduced more anti-LGBTQ laws in 2022 than almost any other state. We looked at two of the laws that target transgender public school kids: one about bathrooms and one about participation in school sports. Those two issues have very different legal contexts, which you can read more about in the links below.For more on the legal background of trans and nonbinary rights and bathrooms, you can read about the case of Gavin Grimm: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/28/us/politics/supreme-court-transgender-bathroom-rights.htmlFor more on transgender athletes and school sports, you can read about how Title IX will play a role: https://apnews.com/article/title-ix-transgender-athletes-rights-9adfe49a8e07f66f07b5e2302bb94730A note about the data on bullying and school attendance that compares trans, nonbinary, and cisgender students: the sample size of this study is low, covering 14 states that included a question about gender identity, and it’s difficult to ascertain how many transgender students were surveyed in it: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/su/su6901a1.htm#:~:text=In%20addition%2C%20although,and%20ethnicity%20dataHowever, surveys by the Trevor Project point to similar findings on bullying and mental health: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/The-Trevor-Project-Bullying-Research-Brief-October-2021.pdfHere is more data on mental health and transgender students in US schools: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2021/09/13/transgender-student-rights-shouldnt-be-subject-to-partisan-feuds/EdWeek has a thorough breakdown of what’s behind the push to legislate school policies, and how anti-LGBTQ laws are used as a political strategy by Republicans: https://www.edweek.org/leadership/whats-driving-the-push-to-restrict-schools-on-lgbtq-issues/2022/04For more on the implications for the Nashville school board’s decision to defy Tennessee law: https://wpln.org/post/tennessee-will-soon-be-able-to-pull-funding-from-schools-that-defy-anti-transgender-laws-where-does-that-leave-transgender-youth/ChaptersState law vs. federal law: 00:00Tennessee’s anti-trans laws: 2:02Who controls public schools?: 4:22Legal limbo: 6:21Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletterVox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.comSupport Vox's reporting with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://vox.com/contribute-nowShop the Vox merch store: http://vox.com/storeWatch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyEFollow Vox on Facebook: http://facebook.com/voxFollow Vox on Twitter: http://twitter.com/voxdotcomFollow Vox on TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@voxdotcom