Book Rec - The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time was on the Reading and Resource list for Lettie Shumate’s Patreon in July. I reserved the CD audio book and listened to it three times. It’s a book I wish I had read long before now and one that is sadly still quite applicable today. It begins with the essay “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation.” This is a letter that James Baldwin wrote to his nephew James. The second essay is titled “Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind,” in which Baldwin offered his incredible insights into Christianity and Islam. Baldwin addressed racial inequality in both essays in ways that changed me and are still changing me. Have you read The Fire Next Time?
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