The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

"Written in 1963, James Baldwin’s famed book of essays The Fire Next Time is actually a good fit for the social media age. In this similarly slim tribute The Fire This Time, editor and writer Jesmyn Ward honors Baldwin’s legacy with writers who, as rapper Biggie Smalls would have said, if you don’t know — now you know: Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Kiese Laymon, Daniel José Older, Claudia Rankine and many more poets and novelists. Writers unafraid to talk about the messy, unfinished business of race in the age of Barack Obama. As Ward told NPR, “Sometimes you get tired of fighting … but that doesn’t mean that you can give up the fight.”"