The Fire Next TimeAt once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document from the iconic author of If Beale Street Could Talk and Go Tell It on the Mountain. It consists of two letters, written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible

planted by Spanish missionaries/ in the 18th century

must find the courage to help exonerate the man she had accused with her panicked cry

a knowing of the soul

As he gets older

intelligent

Magic City is a portrait of an era

Both are Black British

and to do lists

especially youth of color

To make matters worse

their ancestors were stolen and brought to America by white slave traders

With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples' Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe