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Billy Porter to Play Writer James Baldwin in Upcoming Biopic: 'I Intend to Expand His Legacy'
People via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBilly Porter notably quoted James Baldwin at the 2019 Emmy Awards after he won best actor for his...
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....
Billy Porter Secures Role As James Baldwin In Upcoming Biopic
VIBE via Yahoo News· 1 year agoActor and vocalist Billy Porter has been called upon to take on the role of late American writer,...
‘Baldwin & Buckley at Cambridge’ Off Broadway Review: The Great Debate Loses Some of Its Bite
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI highly recommend you watch the YouTube taping of the debate between James Baldwin and William F....
Defending Free Speech Is a Dirty Job But Someone’s Gotta Do It: Talking the First Amendment with...
SPIN via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise...
Renewing the Black-Jewish alliance — it's what Dr. King would have wanted
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHow weird, tangled, contradictory are Black-Jewish relations in 2023? Two words. Whoopi Goldberg....
Dan Wakefield, Indiana Writer of All Trades, Dies at 91
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 3 months agoPhoto Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/APDan Wakefield, an accomplished scribe who...
‘Genius: MLK/X’ Delivers an Enthralling Illustration of the Civil Rights Movement and Its Leaders:...
Variety via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe Civil Rights Movement and its leaders have often been presented as relics of the past: They’ve...
Turns Out Martin Luther King Jr. Didn’t Really Criticize Malcolm X
Biography via Yahoo News· 1 month agoMartin Luther King Jr.’s oft-referenced criticism of Malcolm X in a 1965 ‘Playboy’ interview was...
Mark Woods: 60 years after March on Washington, A. Philip Randolph's story — in his words
The Florida Times-Union via Yahoo News· 10 months agoFor someone looking for Jacksonville’s history, it was like stumbling upon a treasure, not exactly...