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Why it works: "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

A lot of the writing advice out there focuses on what NOT to do. “Why ... It seemed that there had never been a time when he had not known ...

More Various, More Beautiful, & More Terrible: Thinking with Baldwin

Olivia M Comstock (OC): What is your relationship to art or to art museums? Megan Finch (MF): I'm not a person who thinks with visual art a lot in my ...

Facing the World with Courage: James Baldwin & Black History Month

He would later say that part of the reason he moved is because he knew that whatever he faced, alone, broke, and in a country he had never lived ...

James Baldwin at 90: “'I can't believe what you say,' the song goes ...

Education, for Baldwin, must be revolutionary, an act of social justice. In Baldwin's words, I hear a refrain: No rhetorical sleight of words ...

James Baldwin | The Brevity Blog

Leonard Cohen wrote, “I write to reveal not what I know, but what I don't know.” And of an artist's profession in general he said, “You're married to a mystery.

Retracing James Baldwin's Steps in Istanbul - Fodors Travel Guide

In Istanbul, Baldwin was the writer he wanted to be. In America, he was the activist he had to be. The two are essential to the whole, as the ...

Ep. 321 No Name in the Street by James Baldwin

I don't know anyways, we always start here for book club. You don generally what did you think of this book? And also I will ask this, have you ...

Book Club Author Suggestion: James Baldwin

James Baldwin (1924-1987) was an American novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and social activist. Regarded as one of the most influential American authors ...

James Baldwin was asking us 'to grow up', but 'we're still adolescent'

Despite being written in 1963, the relevancy of James Baldwin's “The Fire Next Time” is undeniable. It's comprised of two essays — “My ...

Interview with James Baldwin on Sexuality - Richard Goldstein

The only one I had was "homosexual" and that didn't quite cover whatever it was I was beginning to feel. Even when I began to realize things about myself, began ...

Today Would Have Been James Baldwin's 100th Birthday

Baldwin was not exactly a militant voice like Malcolm X or Stokely Carmichael, or a preacher's passionate voice like Reverend King; his was the ...

“Everything you hate about me is what I love about myself”: The ...

James Baldwin was more than a civil rights activist. He was a Black, gay, atheist, who was defiantly proud at a time when he was supposed to be ashamed of all ...

James Baldwin: The Uses of the Blues - Autonomies

I don't know what “the Negro problem” means to white people, but this is what it means to Negroes. Now, it would seem to me, since this is so, ...

Tag: James Baldwin - Joshunda Sanders

Home is where we learn who we are, if not who we will become. Home is the ... But what we know is that history repeats itself. On American shores ...

Multiplicity of Me: On Race, Fatherhood, and James Baldwin

I did not come of age in the America Baldwin wrote of, and yet I feel a deep affinity with the experiences Baldwin is describing whenever I read ...

A Talk to Teachers - Zinn Education Project

So where we are now is that a whole country of people believe I'm a “nigger,” and I don't, and the battle's on! Because if I am not what I've been told I am, ...

On Not Getting (Over) Getting Saved: James Baldwin and Go Tell It ...

And what exactly did I do when “I did it”? I am still thinking about that salvation. I have not gotten it yet. On His Way. James Baldwin's Go ...

'They know not what they do': James Baldwin and the crime of ...

'[10] To truly know your history is a position of strength: 'Know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.'[11] ...

Celebrating James Baldwin, on what would have been his 100th ...

One of the most influential writers to emerge during the civil rights era, Baldwin, who died in 1987, spoke to Terry Gross in 1986 about ...

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket - PBS

About the Episode · The life, works and beliefs of the late writer and civil rights activist are recounted: what it is to be born black, impoverished, gifted, ...