While audiobook was a great format for this collection, I also wish that I had the pages in front of me to mark up, meditate on, and copy for remembrance. Coates' in-depth reporting over the Obama years was compelling and thought-provoking. Couched in the tragic aftermath, each essay and year seemed even more fraught and full of portent.

"A Case for Reparations" should be a must-read for every single American.