In this ‘vital book for these times’ (Kirkus Reviews), Don
Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black
man to today’s most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in
our lifetimes?
The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is
more popular than ever. As America’s only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon
and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of
the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America’s
systemic flaws speak for his millions of fans. Now, in an urgent,
deeply personal, riveting plea, he shows us all how deep our problems
lie, and what we can do to begin to fix them.
Beginning with a
letter to one of his Black nephews, he proceeds with reporting and
reflections on his slave ancestors, his upbringing in the shadows of
segregation, and his adult confrontations with politicians, activists,
and scholars. In doing so, Lemon offers a searing and poetic ultimatum
to America. He visits the slave port where a direct ancestor was
shackled and shipped to America. He recalls a slave uprising in
Louisiana, just a few miles from his birthplace. And he takes us to the
heart of the 2020 protests in New York City. As he writes to his young
nephew: We must resist racism every single day. We must resist it with
love.
