To celebrate the centenary of the writer, poet and civil rights activist, read his stirring essay “My Dungeon Shook,” written as a letter to his young nephew, in which he encapsulates the ironies of race relations in America.

To celebrate the centenary of the writer, poet and civil rights activist, read his stirring essay “My Dungeon Shook,” written as a letter to his young nephew, in which he encapsulates the ironies of race relations in America.