Join Politics and Prose for a launch event to celebrate the publication of When the Smoke Cleared, Kyla Sommers's "eye-opening history" (Publishers Weekly) about the 1968 rebellions in the nation's capital following the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. When the Smoke Cleared tells the story of the Washingtonians who seized the moment to rebuild a more just society, one that would protect and foster Black political and economic power.