Love this reminder of why these literary doors to the past must stay preserved and accessible on our library and home shelves. The value of travelling those portals for perspective will never diminish! Recently, I have been reading James Baldwin, Wole Soyinka, and Langston Hughes’s volume “Poems from Black Africa”. What those voices have illuminated about today’s world and how I can adjust my interactions with POC had been tremendously rewarding. I have added using Google Earth to virtually visit cultural museums throughout African cities and letting those echoes from the past speak to me afresh. Yep, I’m a white, suburban school teacher and librarian still letting the classics say what they need to me today = priceless. Thanks for posting!