The Selfless Act of Breathing

"Michael Kabongo is a British-Congolese teacher living in London...He's beloved by his students, popular with his coworkers, and the pride and joy of a mother who emigrated from the Congo to the UK...But behind closed doors, he's been struggling with theoverwhelming sense that he can't address the injustices he sees raging before him--from his relentless efforts to change the lives of his students for the better to his attempts to transcend the violence and brutality that marginalizes young Black men around the world"--