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Posted on January 11, 2021
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Actor and author Blair Underwood recounts the experience of reading the first book that looked like him: Alex Haley's ROOTS. Not only did the book-turned-miniseries spark his love for reading, but it also ignited an interest in history. https://youtu.be/GodmWdKCE60
The 2021 Winter Reading Challenge: Books Like Us is sponsored by Simon & Schuster.
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Our lives beginto end the daywe become silentabout things that matter.~ Martin Luther King Jr. .
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