And his journey from street thug to civil rights leader was inspiring to black folks in the same way Roots was inspiring. In the same way Roots woke up black folks to the power of black family history, the Malcolm X book woke up black folks to the power of personal history. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley, (nonfiction) because this was the book Roots author Alex Haley wrote before Roots. It's not even past." - Karen Grigsby Bates, Code Switch correspondent
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (novel) because it traces the fates of two Ghanian half-sisters and their descendants over several generations, and, like Roots, it vividly shows why, when it comes to the trauma of slavery, William Faulkner was right: "The past is never dead.
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