If We Are Brave: Essays from Black Americana

The popular Washington Post contributing opinion columnist challenges readers to have uncomfortable conversations about race, drawing on the first-person perspectives of the author and Americans from diverse viewpoints and walks of life.

"The United States claims to be a nation founded on an idea," writes Theodore R. Johnson, "but Americans-even though we nod our heads to that assertion-do not agree on what that idea is, what it should do, or who it is for." The reality is that America is fa...