Rachel Baack
Summary: After Justyce McAllister is—to his shock—handcuffed and treated unjustly by a police officer when he is trying to help a friend, he begins writing letters to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to try to process what is happening to and around him. As the year goes on, Justyce continues to write these letters, detailing his experiences navigating being a Black student in a predominantly white prep school and confronting the realities of racism and police brutality on both a personal and national scale.
Summary: After Justyce McAllister is—to his shock—handcuffed and treated unjustly by a police officer when he is trying to help a friend, he begins writing letters to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to try to process what is happening to and around him. As the year goes on, Justyce continues to write these letters, detailing his experiences navigating being a Black student in a predominantly white prep school and confronting the realities of racism and police brutality on both a personal and national scale.