Ink and Soul

Harlem, 1921. Eli Caldwell sets type by day and writes poems by night under a name that isn't quite his own. Ada Joseph sells newspapers on the corner and argues, in unsigned essays, that dignity is not something you ask permission for. When they meet outside Liberty Hall in October, they disagree about almost everything that matters: what freedom looks like, where it has to be built, and who this country will ever allow it to belong to. Ada has a brother in Trinidad and a ticket she has be...