Publisher's Synopsis
In 1963, Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf Black America. Every big argument about race that persists to this day got a hearing in that room. And we grapple still with the responsibility of Black intellectuals and artists to bring about social change. This book exists at the tense intersection of the conflict between politics and prophecy - of whether we embrace political resolution or moral redemption to fix our fractured racial landscape.
