A School District Rejected a Black Author’s Book About Tulsa for Its Curriculum. Then the Community Decided to Act.

Randi Pink, author of the young adult fiction novel “The Angel of Greenwood,” talked to ContrabandCamp about how residents of a Pittsburgh suburb rallied around her book.

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Randi Pink’s book was at the center of controversy in a Pennsylvania school district for more than a year — a fight she wasn’t even aware of until recently.

Members of the Pine-Richland school board, which governs a mid-sized school district in the suburbs of northern Pittsburgh, voted against adding the Alabama-based author’s 2021 …