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Kindergarten Rules For Teaching ‘Black Lives Matter’ To A Disney Princess

Calvin Z. Heyward, a local writer and educator, writes more about some of the struggles Black fathers endure and overcome.

By Calvin Z. Heyward

Feb. 10, 2022 · 5 min read

Kindergarten Rules For Teaching ‘Black Lives Matter’ To A Disney Princess
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Kindergarten Rules For Teaching ‘Black Lives Matter’ To A Disney Princess

Calvin Z. Heyward, a local writer and educator, writes more about some of the struggles Black fathers endure and overcome.

· 5 min read
Kindergarten Rules For Teaching ‘Black Lives Matter’ To A Disney Princess

It happened. My four-year old daughter, London, all but told her mother, she didn’t want to have brown skin anymore.

Her reasoning for this came after her pre-Kindergarten class had read a story about a young Martin Luther King Jr. The class, like so many others, was celebrating Dr. King’s…

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