Righteous Rage, or How John Lewis Helped Me Understand Killmonger and Myself

I wasn’t yet prepared. For years I sent students to greet him; for years he would happily oblige. His role on Capitol Hill was not simply a legislator, but an ambassador. Not simply an ambassador for a nation — that is too small — but the ambassador for The Dream of the Nation: a dream that hope and perseverance, remembrance and renewal, kindness and…