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Jabari Asim

 
Jabari Asim is the author of What Obama Means . . . For Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future, The N Word, and several books for children. He is also a scholar-in-residence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and editor-in-chief of The Crisis, the magazine of the NAACP. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Essence, Ebony, and other publications. He recently was honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship.
 
Me and Muhammad Ali
Mighty Justice (Young Readers' Edition)
Preaching to the Chickens

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Me and Muhammad Ali
Mighty Justice (Young Readers' Edition)
Preaching to the Chickens

Books for Black History Month

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