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Reading James Baldwin in an Election Year
Time via AOL· 3 months agoJames Baldwin in his apartment in New York, on Jan. 30, 1963. Credit - Bettmann/Getty Images The evening James Baldwin stood in the pulpit of a New...
James Baldwin's Home in France Should be a Black Artist's Mecca. Instead, It's an Apartment Complex
The Root via Yahoo News· 8 months agoFor lovers of Black literature, James Baldwin was one of the greatest. And while he was born in...
75 James Baldwin Quotes That Tell the Story of Black America
Parade via Yahoo News· 1 year agoQuotes pulled from interviews, speeches, letters, and novels by James Baldwin. Essayist. Activist....
History: James Baldwin’s civil rights and poetry in Palm Springs
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIn three spare and widely spaced type-written pages, the Black, gay, expatriate, erudite man of...
Progress Is Not A Given. It is Won
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCredit - Illustration by Aaron Marin for TIME; Source Photos: Getty Images (3), NYPL (2) On a cold, brisk January afternoon, I am sitting in my favorite...
Here Are 5 Things to Know About James Baldwin Before You See His Biopic
The Root via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe internet went wild over the recent announcement that Emmy-winning Pose star Billy Porter would...
Young people echo James Baldwin: ‘How much time do you want for your progress?’
theGrio via AOL· 9 months agoOPINION: Black youth see our communities harmed without recompense, and we can no longer ask them to...
Biden's death penalty inaction is unacceptable
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 1 year agoObjectively, one of the most glaring impediments to President Biden’s reelection for human and civil rights advocates — and activists — is Biden’s...
The day Martin Luther King and James Baldwin came to Beverly Hills
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn 1968, the two men convened an impromptu ensemble that they knew might destabilized their...
Family-owned Tacoma bookstore marks Black History Month with readings, community events
Tacoma News Tribune via AOL· 1 year agoFebruary is Black History Month, and some Washingtonians may be looking for books about Black...
