James Baldwin
Don’t Believe What Donald Trump Says, See What He Does–Rep. Barbara Lee
Donald Trump. A reckless ruler who promotes racism and xenopobia. Photo: Gage Skidmore-Flickr Congresswoman Barbara Lee delivered the Weekly Democratic Address. In ...
Beale Street Captures Baldwin’s wisdom, social consciousness and expansive imagination
If Beale Street Could Talk Film Review January 2019 “Tish, “she said, “when we was first brought here, the white man he ...
Disent on Disenters: Revisiting Cornel West’s Critique of Ta-Nehisi Coates
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 ...
The Myth of White Supremacy from Columbus to Charlottesville
James Baldwin in The Fire Next Time summed it best: “Time catches up with kingdoms and crushes them, gets it teeth into doctrines ...
Documentary On Malcolm X’s European Trip before Assassination — To Screen at African Film Festival
Bethune shown with Howard Hughes in Tanzania. At the 24th New York African Film Festival, Lebert “Sandy” Bethune, Jamaican filmmaker, poet, author and scholar, ...
“I Am Not Your Negro”; A Film of the ’60s for 2017
During a recent interview to promote his new documentary “I Am Not Your Negro,” I asked filmmaker Raoul Peck whether James Baldwin, the subject ...
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me” Leaves You Introspective And On The Verge Of Tears
Ta-Nehisi Coates [Book Review] Between the World and Me Spiegel & Grau, 2015 by Ta-Nehisi Coates Toni Morrison Was Right With his second book, ...
Live Ideas Festival: James Baldwin This Time
James Baldwin [New York Live Arts Program Details and Schedule] James Baldwin, This Time! April 23 – 27, 2014 Highlights include a Keynote ...
Play: Welcome Home Sonny T
Nestor Carrillo, Richard Pryor Jr., Kadeem Harris. Photo by Jonathan Slaff. [Theater] In a neighborhood torn by gun violence between black and Mexican youth, ...
