Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America

Of a piece with What Truth Sounds Like and Tears We Cannot Stop, Michael Eric Dyson’s elegiac, aching, epistolary history of racial violence in America is a “love letter to the martyrs of the struggle, to my people who have been courageous long-distance runners in the fight for justice, and to a country that hasn’t always loved us as it should.” In seven sharp, exquisite missives to those killed, Dyson wrestles with their deaths, invites us to confront past and present, challenges us to truly look at the legacy of race. In the confrontation we might find a better future.