Read an excerpt from "This Is the Fire"

CNN anchor Don Lemon has already chronicled his own career in the news industry.

His latest book takes on just one current event: racism.

While This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism spends time in the past (of necessity) to explain how we arrived at the moment we’re in, it promises a look forward as well, to how we can fix these longstanding problems and tensions.

You can read an excerpt of This Is the Fire, which came out Tuesday, in the New York Times.

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