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was written in Reynold's neat voice drew inspiration from previous book by kendi.''Franklin said it 'condenses kendi's expansive nonfiction masterpiece''exactly,entitled Stamped from the beginning:The Definitive History of Racist ideas in America.About 10chapters of 246pages.You have none on your shelf''Excerpt for the joint publication,i dont have the rest.See papa,i stumbled on many books so far written on antiracism and black freedom.'Like what?'Colson Whitehead wrote Pulitzer prize winning novel'The Nickel Boys'published by Penguin Random house.'Was it not the novel written on real life reform school in Florida where boys weremurdered andregularly beaten for a good century?'Yea,it focuses on Elwood Curtis a blackteen.''Yea,but he wrongly ends up in nickel academy,a fictional academy.'You know Curtis,he had friendship with Jack Turner,another black student.Cast in 1960s both faced the tragic reality of being a black boy in america.''I love Shomari Wills,author of'Black Fortunes:The Story of the First Six