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"We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here." • When my book club agreed to read Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy B. Tyson, we had no idea the ways in which it would mirror our current social and political climate. Tyson writes about a formative moment in both his personal life and the history of his hometown: the 1970 murder of Henry Marrow. Tyson explores his family history, the history of Oxford, North Carolina, and the impact of Marrow's murder on the civil rights movement. He talks about his own relationship to racism and white supremacy, the impact of education on his family, the complicated relationship between liberal whites and Black people in Oxford, and the importance of confronting our history in order to understand where we are. via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CBx1AffAMDO/