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By Kary Love Photos: Wikimedia Commons Reading James Baldwin’s 1964 weighty but buoyant tome, “Nothing Personal,” struck like lightning as he shredded the myths that blind. Buoyant because…
Photos: Returning The Bones (February 27, 2023, Seattle, WA) In her debut historical fiction novel, “Returning The Bones,” Gin Hammond regales readers with an epic, globe-trotting adventure inspired…
Dear Schomburg Center Friends: We're slowly and safely getting back to work inside the Schomburg Center as the Library begins a carefully phased-in process of reopening branches to…
Donald Trump. Dangrous POTUS in era of pandemic. Photo: Gage Skidmore Here’s how James Baldwin put it in Down At The Cross in 1963, “Time catches up with…
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III “You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world calls a nigger…This innocent country set you down…
"Sweet Lorraine" is a new theatrical play about the friendship between playwright Lorraine Hansberry and writer James Baldwin. Photo: "Sweet Lorraine" flyer Rebel Theater Company, in association with…
Donald Trump. A reckless ruler who promotes racism and xenopobia. Photo: Gage Skidmore-Flickr Congresswoman Barbara Lee delivered the Weekly Democratic Address. In this week’s address, Congresswoman Lee marked…
If Beale Street Could Talk Film Review January 2019 “Tish, “she said, “when we was first brought here, the white man he didn’t give us no preachers to…
Cornel West. Source-RT YouTube “Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. 'Where did this man get this wisdom and…
James Baldwin in The Fire Next Time summed it best: “Time catches up with kingdoms and crushes them, gets it teeth into doctrines and rends them; time reveals…
