Jonathan Kozol on Al Franken's show right now

[proud2BlibKansan]

One of my heroes. If you aren't familiar with him, check him out.

Jonathan Kozol (born 1936 in Boston) is a non-fiction writer, educator, and activist, best known for his books on public education in the United States. In the passion of the civil rights campaigns of 1964 and 1965, Kozol moved from Harvard Square to a poor black neighborhood of Boston (Roxbury, MA) and became a fourth grade teacher in the Boston Public Schools. It was after he was fired from the Boston Public Schools for reading Langston Hughes poetry to his class that he was thrust into the limelight and became a more prominent figure on the Boston civil rights scene.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Kozol