In some sense, I suppose having those conversations is a kind of progress. After all, we don't have White History Month—it's just part of what kids learn all the time. But I could have never imagined this moment as a fifth-grade student whose class assignments included writing letters to our local officials demanding that Martin Luther King's birthday be made into a national holiday. Or even as a high-school student just happening upon "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" at a friend's house and wondering why I had to introduce myself to such a complex, controversial and fascinating figure.Read the entire article here
