The Fire Next Time, from the inimitable James Baldwin, is a book in two parts:
-My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation
-Down At the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind
The first letter is only seven pages, and it is what (in format and content) most directly influences Ta-nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me. It’s the kind of communication that seems too well put together to be worth picking apart. Go read it.
Elizabeth DeOrnellas 