Today we remember that Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream that black people “[would] not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” but instead we learn that black men reap a harvest of endemic poverty and system racism in the South decades after MLK’s assassination. No author gives us a more visceral rendering of this testimony of injustice to black men than Jesmyn Ward in her emotional, gut-punching memoir,