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  • Watch: James Baldwin, in Our Words and His

    James Baldwin is unequivocally one of the most prolific writers of his time. A queer black man, he brought life to the African-American experience through his novels, essays, debates and public lectures. And now a new generation is getting to experience the power of those words in the Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro.…

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    Felice León

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

    Black women have never labored under the assumption that all womanhood is created equal in a white supremacist society. We have had to fight for access to the full spectrum of womanhood, to be treated not as breeding chattel but as fully human. We know white supremacy to be a feminist issue on the most…

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    Kirsten West Savali

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

    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. “I want these three lives to bang against and reveal one another as they did in…

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    Damaso

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  • Chasing James Baldwin in Paris

    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 Tower while Ellington…

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    Todd Steven Burroughs

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

    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. I’ve always known that his work was important…

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    Alexander Hardy

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