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Writing about charged topics

Photo by Molly Rider, Grand Marais Art Colony
Photo by Molly Rider, Grand Marais Art Colony

As part of the Grand Marais Art Colony's North Shore Readers & Writers Festival, WTIP’s Jay Andersen moderated a panel discussion on writing about charged topics, live from the Grand Marais Public Library on November 2.

The panel included:

Julie Landsman, author of Basic Needs: A Year With Street Kids in a City School and A White Teacher Talks About Race.

William Green, author of A Peculiar Imbalance, The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Minnesota, 1837–1869 and Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912.

Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, and The Song Poet.

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