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ABOUT Shawn Taylor

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When Are Kids Ready to Handle Life's Heavier Issues?

Arguing that he has taken a firm stance against teaching his 6-year-old daughter from a deficit model, Shawn Taylor writes at Ebony.com that he is prepared to explain the social ills she will confront during her lifetime.

Villages Don't Raise Children Anymore

San Francisco-based author Shawn Taylor laments in a piece for Ebony how the splintered black community no longer comes together to raise children, which is the result of fractured and increasingly violence-prone families. 

What I Did When My Child Heard the N-Word

Ebony's Shawn Taylor explains how he adjusted the "race talk" with his daughter after she heard someone hurl a racist slur at him.