“Reagan Jackson is the most important writer you might not have read yet. If a cat has nine lives, Jackson’s living ten. She’s in a Veracruz hotel room watching the Ferguson protests unfold on CNN. She’s in Seattle’s CHOP district in the summer of 2020 leading a Black healing event. If she’s not starting up a study abroad program for students of color or summing up with stunning clarity the epic drain of a “well intended white person” (see Page 81!), she’s learning to box, dance burlesque, and surf. And whatever country Jackson travels to or whatever theatre, comedy show, or lecture she attends, she listens, introducing us to voices we don’t often hear who speak of oppression, liberation, and hope. Reagan Jackson’s stories in Still True: The Evolution of an Unexpected Journalist drop us right onto the fault lines where plates are converging, where our culture—our very world—is being forged into something new. And with brilliant insight, candor, and vulnerability, Jackson shares the moments with us. We are there—right there—with her, as she shows us with precision and grace who we are and who we have yet to become. ”