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AVIVA BROWN Hi! I'm Aviva Brown, a black, Jewish wife, and mother of four biracial kids, aged 10, 8, 5, and 3 months. I’m currently writing a children’s book about our colorful Jewish family. So many adjectives, describing my life—black, Jewish, woman, mother, convert.  I’m still becoming these things, becoming fully myself.  It’s challenging. Addressing Representation I began ...

It is often said that learning about your country's history is a mirror into who you are. But what if the mirror you are looking into, shows   Nothing?     With the significant absence of that reflection in US primary schoolbooks, many young, impressionable children must learn to construct and champion their own realities outside of the classroom in ...