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  • 2 weeks ago | commonsensemedia.org | Dashka Slater |Rachel Sarah

    age 13+ True story of teens' fateful encounter and its aftermath. Parents need to know that The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives is a compelling, sometimes emotional nonfiction story of a 2013 assault in Oakland, California, when an African American public school teen boy named Richard set fire to a sleeping, gender-nonconforming white private school teen named Sasha on that bus.

  • May 24, 2024 | dashkaslater.substack.com | Dashka Slater

    When the artist Elizabeth Haidle posted this picture on her Instagram account a while back, I immediately messaged her to ask if I could use it in my presentations. (Happily, she said yes.) I had never seen a better representation of what my brain is doing when I’m reporting a story—or taking in any new information about a subject that engages my emotions. More than three decades in journalism have trained me to insert a little distance between me and new information.

  • Apr 18, 2024 | sonderbooks.com | Dashka Slater

    AccountableThe True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed Review posted April 23, 2024. Macmillan Young Listeners, 2023. 9 hours, 12 minutes. Review written April 18, 2024, from a library eaudiobook. Starred Review 2024 Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award Winner 2024 Capitol Choices Selection 2024 Sonderbooks Standout: #4 Teen Nonfiction I did not enjoy listening to this audiobook.

  • Apr 14, 2024 | motherjones.com | Dashka Slater

    Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This essay was originally published on Dashka Slater’s Substack, A Sigh of Relief, which you can sign up for here. I was homeless when I started college at the University of California, Berkeley. First-year students weren’t guaranteed housing in those days, and I’d been unable to secure a spot in either the dorms or the student-run housing co-ops.

  • Dec 20, 2023 | briefly.co | Dashka Slater

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