On Race: Readings from New Nonfiction

In Pam Kelley’s Money Rock: A Family’s Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South meet Money Rock―young, charismatic, and Charlotte’s flashiest coke dealer. In We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and The Art of Survival, Jabari Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison has exposed as the “Master Narrative” and replaces it with a story of black survival and persistence through art and community. Michael K. Honey’s To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of Martin Luther King Jr. as an advocate of racial harmony to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on Friday Black.