What You Need to Know for Black History Month

This book may have contributed to the Justice Department reopening the investigation into the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till in Mississippi. Part detective story, part political history, it reveals shocking new evidence and proves that some stories in history demand revisiting.

In the US, as racial tensions have come to the forefront of political discourse once again, we’ve gotten many brilliant essays on race relations from Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jesmyn Ward, and others. If you’ve loved their writing as much as we have, it’s time to read Reni Eddo-Lodge’s award-winning book about life as a person of color in Britain.