Publisher Synopsis: A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and…
“A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are a necessity,” Toni Morrison writes in the prologue of her…
Last year when promoting his Academy Award-winning film, Moonlight, director Barry Jenkins found himself at the…
Barry Jenkins sure knows how to illustrate the fuck out of love.
During the course of filming If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins tried to stay loyal to the vision and flavor of…
“Trust love, all the way.” Those are the final words of Barry Jenkins’ full-length trailer for his adaptation of James…
Though James Baldwin left Harlem when he was in his teens, the historic black neighborhood was never far from his mind.…
Barry Jenkins, director of Moonlight, which snagged 2017’s Best Picture Oscar, is back with If Beale Street Could Talk,…
Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) has tackled James Baldwin’s tragic, yet beautiful tale, If Beale…
I wanted to be able to come here and speak with you on this occasion because you are young, gifted and black. ... I,…
For many of us with ties to the city of Atlanta, the name Wayne Williams evokes memories. While I was too young and too…
Last night, the Yara Shahidi-led vehicle Grown-ish debuted. For those not in the know, it’s a spinoff from hit ABC show …
Today marks 30 years since James Baldwin’s passing, and America seems to be as ignorant of its inherent racism as it…
After his history-making turn directing Moonlight, Barry Jenkins has chosen to tackle the work of one of America’s…
Barry Jenkins, director of the Oscar-winning feature film Moonlight, has plans to bring more black excellence to the…
There’s a line in the Smiths’ “Unloveable” that goes, “I wear black on the outside/’cause black is how I feel on the…
James Baldwin is unequivocally one of the most prolific writers of his time.
Black women have never labored under the assumption that all womanhood is created equal in a white supremacist society.
In the late 1970s, James Baldwin began working on an idea for a book that would tell the story of America through the…
James Baldwin is directly connected to Duke Ellington and John Coltrane in my mind, thanks to the 90-minute documentary …
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