For nearly a century, The New Yorker has been a forum for readers to consider Black life in America from a variety of perspectives. Collecting some of the magazine's finest reporting, profiles, memoir, and criticism, this substantial anthology includes Rebecca West's classic account of a 1947 lynching trial, James Baldwin's "Letter from a Region in My Mind", and Alex Ross on the importance of Marian Anderson. Here too are selections by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Toni Morrison, Calvin Trillin, Zadie Smith, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Malcolm Gladwell, and Jamaica Kincaid, among others.