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Each year I'm grateful. This year, despite all the adversity around us, I stand especially grateful. Accepted awards + started projects alongside people I admire. Essayed to grave moments and enduring histories. Finished #HowtoRaiseanAntiracist. Here are 21 highlights from 2021. 
1) Jan. 11. After attack on the U.S. Capitol, Republicans and Democrats commonly proclaimed “this is not who we are,” which was a bald-faced denial. I wrote about the normality of this denial. “When have Americans commonly admitted who we are?”
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2) Jan. 15. Announced 3 projects @netflix. Working w/ director @RogerRossWill + executive producer @MaraBrockAkil to adapt #StampedfromtheBeginning + #Stamped—and w/ @chrisdocnee, creator of Doc McStuffins (my daughter’s fav show) to adapt #AntiracistBaby
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In 2018, as the symbolic 400th birthday of Black America approached in 2019, I reflected on a way to commemorate this historic occasion. I had finished treatment for metastatic cancer. Though my emotional and physical wounds hadn’t healed, I had a new lease on life. 1/10
An idea for a new type of history dawned on me, and I’ll never forget sharing the idea with @agent_ayesha --and later with @OneWorldLit editor, @cjaxone, in his office after discussing the final edits on #HowToBeAnAntiracist. 2/10
Why not a community write a history of a community? 3/10
