It is a cool autumn morn­ing and I am perched on my couch, a cof­fee cup near­by, a few pages into Clau­dia Rankine’s newest book, Just Us: An Amer­i­can Con­ver­sa­tion. My 14-year-old son saun­ters in and asks what I am read­ing when I look up over the brim to tell him: “It’s a book on race by […]

Read More Just Human: Black sto­ries are most reward­ed when they cen­ter black­ness — which, in a cer­tain sense, is to cen­ter whiteness