skopia
Hughes wrote the blues into American poetry, plain-spoken and syncopated. He asked what happens to a dream deferred, and the playwright Lorraine Hansberry built A Raisin in the Sun from his answer.
Writing to his teenage nephew, Baldwin remembers preaching in Harlem and dining with the leader of the Nation of Islam. He spares white America nothing and refuses to hate it.
Baldwin buries his father on his nineteenth birthday while Harlem riots, and winters as the only Black man in a Swiss village. He turns his own life into an argument about America.