Particularly black boys in the United States at this moment, but its also filled with my desire for them to live a life of beauty and joy and excellence and self regard and in the extraordinary tradition that we have to draw from. Host where did you come up with the idea . Guest ive written that letter is privately but my editor said is this something you would be interested in doing and i talk about my children all the time and post about them on social media and initially i think what we both had in mind is something that was a bitad lighthearted but then when i started to reflect on what it would mean to try to tell a story to them at up to my expectations but also my warnings and the depth of my love and a story for them and the world it became something more sober and i reached into the archives that i had in my mind of the work that for me to death and tried to have a conversation with with the past and present for their futures. Host it reads as if it flowed out of you. Thats pr
Its an epistolary work. Its a letter, a series of letters to my sons of course its also a letter to the larger world. Both about the reality of the terror and anxiety and worry that comes along with being a parent of black children and particularly black boys in the United States at this moment but its also filled with my desire for them to lead a life of beauty and joy. And excellence and self regard. Much of which i think one defined the lessons for an extraordinary definition we have to draw from. Where did you come up with the idea to write your sons a letter . Actually have written them letters privately for years. But my editor gayatri at beacon press said is this something youd be interested in doing i think a large part because i talk about my children all the time direct post about them in social media. Initially what we both had in mind was something that was probably a bit more lighthearted. When i started to reflect on what it would mean to try to tell a story about both my
After words interviewed top nonfiction authors and other leaders work. Even sometimes surprising read, i really grateful and happy to be talking about this book with you. One of the things i like about the book, you spent time with students and their families and we know today students are so different from the students who used to attend college, into calling them real college students. Im curious about your take on students today based on the reporting. I think the demographics are different, the age are different, i mostly focused on students who were right out of high school, and the experience i wanted to focus on is what the changes soon as out of high school into the workforce. That does not capture all of the college population, but i wanted to understand how the pathways to verged after high school for different students. In most of the ways i found were by Family Income students had a lot of Family Income were going down traditional pass is students without Family Income had
Like about the book is you really spent time with students and their families and College Students are so different that now they taken to calling them Real College Student so im curious on your take. You are right the demographics today the age is different i focused on students who were right out of high school so what is that transition out of high school and into the workplace . That captured all of the college prep on population but i want to understand how that pathway has diverged in most of the way those who had a lot of Family Income going down a much more traditional path and those that had many more obstacles in their path. We get into those different issues but now what is your own path coming out of high school quack. I had a rocky. I grew up in canada after finishing high school in toronto went to columbia and i survived for one semester then dropped out and i bicycled around the Southern United States for a few months and ended up half a year later at yale and went there
Tariffs yet. China and the u. S. Reach a truce and stocks are set to surge at the open we do have those new records within striking distance plus, President Trump easing restrictions on u. S. Companies from selling products to, of course, the Chinese Telecom giant Huawei Semiconductor stocks are rallying sharply ahead of the bell on that news. And oil prices, well, theyre up, this after russia and saudi arabia agree to extend opecs deal to cut Oil Production by another 6 to 9 months. Stocks rising around the globe the s p 500 poised to open at a record high after the u. S. And china agree to resume trade talks. President donald trump offered concessions to his chinese counterpart xi jinping over the weekend, when they met at the sidelines of the g20 summit in japan. They include no new tariffs, and an easing of restrictions on the Huge Technology Telecom Company huawei china did agree to make what are unspecified new purchases of u. S. Farm products and return to the negotiating table.