What It Takes to Get Support for a Black Boy With Special Needs

By Taylor Harris – Time, 01/11/2022


“… Around that time, I developed the mental hashtag #NotMyBlackBoy. I would repeat it in my head as I prepared to engage educators who would try to convince me that in Tophs’ case, the bare bones would do. ..With an education gap between races that lingers at the threshold of almost every school building you step foot in, I have to hold both these truths close…”


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