The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker

"A series of The New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America—consisting of work by James Stanley Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and extra—with a foreword via Jelani Cobb"

This anthology from the pages of the New Yorker offers a formidable and complex portrait of Black existence in America, instructed via tales of personal triumphs and country-wide tragedies, political imaginative and prescient, and creative suggestion. It reaches lower back across a century, with Rebecca West’s traditional account of a 1947 lynching trial and James Stanley Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind” (which later fashioned the premise of The Fire Next Time), and but it also explores our current moment, from the classroom to the jail cellular and the upheavals of what Jelani Cobb calls “the American Spring.”

Bringing collectively reporting, profiles, memoir, and grievances from writers which include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Elizabeth Alexander, Hilton Als, Vinson Cunningham, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Malcolm Gladwell, Jamaica Kincaid, Kelefa Sanneh, Doreen St. Félix, and others, the gathering gives startling insights about this united states of America's dating with race. The Matter of Black Lives well-known shows a load of a singular history and demanding situations us to examine the future anew.