Smoke KingsNate Evers, a young black political activist, struggles with rage as his people are still being killed in the streets 62 years after Emmett Till. When his little cousin is murdered, Nate shuns the graffiti murals, candlelight vigils, and Twitter hashtags that are commonplace after these senseless deaths. Instead, he leads 3 grief stricken friends on a mission of retribution, kidnapping the descendants of long ago perpetrators of hate crimes,

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Mae Townsend has always dreamed of connecting with her estranged Black family in the South

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There is also the matter of the family curse: " No man will call your house his home

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they learn that they have the power to make changes--big or small--in the world

The fourteen essays and speeches collected in this work

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