"You'll find hope in these pages. " --Jonathan Eig, author of Ali:
A Life
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.