This book was incredible, and the narration of this story was equally as beautiful. I listened to this whole book at work because I couldn't and didn't want to stop. Given what our world is like now, it's very sobering to listen to a book written 60 years ago about racial justice in the United States, and even moreso when Baldwin references the writings of DuBois, 60 years prior to his writing this book in 1963. There's so much layered in this book- a history of black voices hoping for better and needing better, and I can feel the tension between hope and exhaustion in Baldwin's writing.

"My Dungeon Shook: Letter to a Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation" should be required reading.