Return to the Page for Heather McGhee’s visit to Ludington Library.

The Sum of Us is about Heather McGhee’s deeply personal journey across America. What she learned led her to write this empathetic, brilliant analysis of how we arrived where we are today in our country. McGhee finds proof of what she calls the Solidarity Dividend: the benefits we gain when people come together across race to accomplish what we simply can’t do on our own. The Sum of Us is a heartfelt message from a black woman to a multiracial America, leaving us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that progress for some of us doesn’t have to come at the expense of others; that life can be more than a zero-sum game.