Is Now the Same as Then?

In this fiction story (but based on true events, go figure), a journalist travels from Detroit to Birmingham to find out what events preceded her great grandfather's murder there in 1929. Moving back and forth between 2019 and the year of her great grandfather's death, we learn about the rampant racism of . . . well, just that. Rampant racism. Although there are plenty of disappointments there, the author keeps it upbeat and we see glimmers of hope too.