She witnessed L.A.'s 1992 unrest from the suburbs. ‘The Black Kids’ reflects what she saw

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Christina Hammonds Reed was only 8 when L.A. erupted and slowly awakened to Black disadvantage. So does the narrator of her debut YA novel.

Walter Mosley, Luis Rodriguez, the coiner of #BlackLivesMatter and others sketch a hopeful future for L.A. and the U.S. after George Floyd protests.

Her teenage protagonist, Ashley, feels the same combination of distance and distress that the author had — the feeling that thingsgone horribly wrong somewhere else. “Like me as a child, Ashley needs to find her way into the Black community,” she says. While developing the novel out of a short story published in the literary magazine

 

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I remember Reginald Denny being pulled from his truck and being pummeled in the head with a brick by Damian Williams.

And still, we are here. And in twenty years, same same.

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