Letters to Martin Meditations on Democracy in Black America
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Letters to Martin Meditations on Democracy in Black America

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Full Title

Letters to Martin Meditations on Democracy in Black America
Author(s)

Randal Maurice Jelks
Edition
ISBN

9781641605564, 9781641606035
Publisher

Review Press/Lawrence Hill Books
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

“You’ll find hope in these pages. ” —Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life * 2023 Kansas Notable Books Letters to Martin contains twelve meditations on contemporary political struggles for our oxygen-deprived society. Evoking Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” these meditations, written in the form of letters to King, speak specifically to the many public issues we presently confront in the United States—economic inequality, freedom of assembly, police brutality, ongoing social class conflicts, and geopolitics. Award-winning author Randal Maurice Jelks invites readers to reflect on US history by centering on questions of democracy that we must grapple with as a society. Hearkening to the era when James Baldwin, Dorothy Day, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Richard Wright used their writing to address the internal and external conflicts that the United States faced, this book is a contemporary revival of the literary tradition of meditative social analysis. These meditations on democracy provide spiritual oxygen to help readers endure the struggles of rebranding, rebuilding, and reforming our democratic institutions so that we can all breathe.

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