I’ve been following a story in Texas about a woman, Isis Brantley, who teaches hair braiding at her Dallas Institute for Ancestral Braiding. Texas officials said her school’s graduates could not be certified because her school didn’t comply with barber school standards. Brantley sued in federal court, saying […]
I met students at Oxford Hills High School in Maine in a program sponsored by the Norway Memorial Library. This student came to talk to me after my presentation about the young girl from Sudan who is the hero of my novel. I had talked to the students […]
Okay, Tom and the teachers at Portland High, this is for you. I joined the teachers for their Book Club in which they’d read THE GOOD BRAIDER. We talked about many themes in the book. Then English teacher Tom Talarico had the idea that if he used the […]
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The Good Braider 