According to the National Center for Education Statistics, more than 82% of Black fourth-grade boys in the U.S. are not proficient in reading. Alvin Irby’s mission is to lower those numbers by filling Black barbershops with free books. The former first-grade teacher was inspired when he saw one of his students looking bored, then antsy, […]
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