Reading ‘The Fire Next Time’ At The End of The Trump Era

James Baldwin’s writing was deeply evocative — and resolute

“James Baldwin” by AK Rockefeller is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

“It is the innocence which constitutes the crime,” James Baldwin wrote so chillingly in his 1962 essay titled “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One-Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation” in The Fire Next Time.