"Wanna hide something from a [person], put it in a book."

Get in the Cipher by KRISTYNA 'iPad' JONES

Episode notes

Rapper Jada Kiss said, "you wanna hide something from a N!$$@ put it in a book". We know that folks who read regularly in these United States continues to decline. How do we get folks engaged? Especially our youth? In this episode we will talk with author and poet Kelly Harris-DeBerry about her journey to writing, raising a voracious reader, and what she thinks we need to help young people grow in literacy and love of the word. Oh and of course gotta bring that Cleveland Connection to ya

Keywords
literacyculturally responsive pedagogyblack cultureblack writerspoetrybookseducationequitable education