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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...
Reading James Baldwin in an Election Year
Time via Yahoo News· 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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
An incarcerated father, fractured family inspire Ashley C. Ford's 'Somebody's Daughter'
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn “Sonny’s Blues,” James Baldwin tells readers there is no way not to suffer; the goal, Baldwin...
Madonna Links Her Mom's Death To Her 'Tumultuous Relationship With Sleep'
TheBlast via Yahoo News· 1 month agoMEGA Music icon Madonna celebrated Mother's Day by baring her heart amid the conclusion of her...
Broadway, in 2022, is 'colorblind.' Would August Wilson approve?
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 2 years agoStrange — the fall theater season in New York kicking off with August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson"...
Nitrogen gas execution: An abomination in Alabama
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEditor's note: The following column by Stephen Cooper, published by The Church of England Newspaper in 2018, deals with Alabama's intention to introduce...
