In “Black Voices in Commentary, The Trotter Group,” 23 three columnists offer chapters in the American story. The diversity of their voices is exhibited in a selection of essays about politics, pop culture icons, struggles of so-called ordinary people, foreign policy, criminal justice, and holidays and commemorations. Writers Derrick Jackson, Les Payne and DeWayne Wickham were co-leaders who assembled the team who honor the legacy of writer/editor/intellectual William Monroe Trotter of Boston.