Playboy Best Nonfiction award for 1981 To grapple with the pervasiveness of American racism, we can always turn to James Baldwin. You cannot help but admire his words in this volume as they remain as relevant today as when they first appeared. -Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist In his last book, Baldwin excavates American race relations to expose the hard-to-face, ingrained issues and demands that require a continuous, civic reckoning. With a new forward from Fair Fight Action founder Stacey Abrams.Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry, they were all Black. James Baldwin investigated these murders, the Black administration in Atlanta, and Wayne Williams, the Black man tried for the crimes. Because there was only evidence to convict Williams for the murders of two men, the children's cases were closed, offering no justice to the families or the country. Baldwin's...

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