Book #143 of 2021: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin This 1963 title has long been on my radar as a foundational text of antiracism, and you can definitely see a throughline from its essay “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation” to Ta-Nehisi Coates writing …
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