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Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart Is a Loving Look at the Legacy of Lorraine Hansberry

Maiysha Kai
1/19/18 11:46am
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I wanted to be able to come here and speak with you on this occasion because you are young, gifted and black. ... I, for one, can think of no more dynamic combination that a person might be. ... And that is why I say to you that, though it be a thrilling and marvelous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times,…

Are You Listening to the Atlanta Monster Podcast? You Should Be

Panama Jackson
1/16/18 3:45pm
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For many of us with ties to the city of Atlanta, the name Wayne Williams evokes memories. While I was too young and too far away at the time to be directly affected by the Atlanta Child Murders—a name given to the rash of murders of black children from many of Atlanta’s impoverished communities from 1979 to 1981—the…

10 Black-Ass Things That Were Awesome About the 1st 2 Episodes of Grown-ish

Panama Jackson
1/04/18 10:35am
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Last night, the Yara Shahidi-led vehicle Grown-ish debuted. For those not in the know, it’s a spinoff from hit ABC show Black-ish that focuses on Shahidi’s character, Zoey, and her journey from super-sheltered private school student to college freshman in this millennial world. Comparisons to A Different World will…

5 Times James Baldwin Read White America

Amirah Mercer
12/01/17 8:45am
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Today marks 30 years since James Baldwin’s passing, and America seems to be as ignorant of its inherent racism as it was when Baldwin was writing and being an all-around brilliant man, scholar and activist. Sometimes I like to imagine a James Baldwin fan fiction of what he’d be doing today if he were still alive.

Moonlight Director on Why New James Baldwin Film Needs to Be in Harlem

Anne Branigin
10/05/17 3:52pm
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After his history-making turn directing Moonlight, Barry Jenkins has chosen to tackle the work of one of America’s great literary icons: James Baldwin.

Moonlight Director Barry Jenkins to Write, Direct Film Version of James Baldwin Novel

Monique Judge
7/10/17 4:46pm
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Barry Jenkins, director of the Oscar-winning feature film Moonlight, has plans to bring more black excellence to the screen in the form of a screen adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk, a novel by celebrated author James Baldwin.

Morrissey Is Selling This Horrible T-Shirt, Because of Course He Is

Yesha Callahan
3/16/17 8:27am
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There’s a line in the Smiths’ “Unloveable” that goes, “I wear black on the outside/’cause black is how I feel on the inside.” Morrissey, the Smiths’ former lead singer, decided to take his love of that line, as well as an image of James Baldwin, to make T-shirts to sell on his North American tour.

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Watch: James Baldwin, in Our Words and His

Felice León
2/14/17 10:00am
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James Baldwin is unequivocally one of the most prolific writers of his time.

The Radical Uses of Anger: All White Women Aren’t the Enemy, but White Supremacy Always Is 

Kirsten West Savali
1/30/17 9:00am
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Black women have never labored under the assumption that all womanhood is created equal in a white supremacist society.

I Am Not Your Negro Brings Back Baldwin’s Voice for a New Generation

Damaso Reyes
1/25/17 12:00pm
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In the late 1970s, James Baldwin began working on an idea for a book that would tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

Chasing James Baldwin in Paris

Todd Steven Burroughs
6/01/16 3:13pm
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James Baldwin is directly connected to Duke Ellington and John Coltrane in my mind, thanks to the 90-minute documentary James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket. When the Paris section of the film starts, you see mid-20th-century black-and-white footage of a security guard opening huge iron gates that lead to the Eiffel…

I'm Reading James Baldwin For The First Time And I'm Falling In Love With His Work

Alexander Hardy
1/13/16 3:21pm
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As a book-loving Black literary homothug who writes openly about life, sexuality, society, and the innumerable consequences and byproducts of White Terribleness and the absence of Teen Summit on post-Y2K childhood development (hint: they’re doomed), Sir James Baldwin has always occupied a peculiar space in my world.…

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