| 单词 | James Baldwin |
| 例句 | In the hall, as I was waiting for the elevator, someone shook my hand and said, “Goodbye, Mr. James Baldwin. We’ll soon be addressing you as Mr. James X.” The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z A turning point in my writing was the discovery of a short story by James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z If anybody wanted to know what the neighborhood looked like in the twenties, where Jack Johnson had lived, perhaps, or where James Baldwin’s father had preached, Mother Fletcher could tell you. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z James Baldwin’s books, translated, had made a tremendous impact, as had the book Black Like Me, by John Griffin. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I found other black writers, in particular the journalist Chuck Stone, and I met John O. Killens, who in turn introduced me to James Baldwin. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z My plans, maybe just my dreams really, had been to go to college, and to write like James Baldwin. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z James Baldwin said, ‘The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.’ Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z But old attitudes and distorted stubborn impressions of my father outlived Arnold Perl and James Baldwin. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Images like this,” she said, pointing to a photo of James Baldwin arm in arm with Marlon Brando, “these are the kinds of things that get people excited.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I was reminded by Walt Whitman to think of the past, and I awaited “The Fire Next Time” with James Baldwin. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “No Black person,” wrote the novelist James Baldwin, “will ever believe that George Jackson died the way they tell us he did.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The James Baldwin one about not being able to change anything unless you face it. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z “Okay then, maybe not. Anyway, this tall black guy with dreads, really cute, was like, ‘You went to Greenbriar and you haven’t read James Baldwin? Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z In the immortal “Notes of a Native Son,” James Baldwin painted an indelible portrait of the man, an itinerant Harlem preacher. Review | How a young writer emerged from a troubled past to a Pulitzer 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z So when I heard that Coates had been inspired, after rereading James Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time,” to write his own version for the current era, I was overjoyed. Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’ 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Her circle of friends grew to include James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry and Stokely Carmichael, and she wrote some of the movement's most passionate anthems, including "Young, Gifted and Black." 'What Happened, Miss Simone?' resonates marvelously 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z A first-edition signed copy of James Baldwin’s “Go Tell It on the Mountain.” Eddie Glaude Jr., an Expert on James Baldwin, Reveals His Favorite Baldwin Book 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Boseman’s solemnity and round, serious, searching eyes better matched James Baldwin. It’s Hard to Make Dignity Interesting. Chadwick Boseman Found a Way. 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z In the guest cottage, the author James Baldwin wrote “The Fire Next Time.” Memoir of a ‘Very Large Life,’ With Poetry, Crusades and Glittering Names 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Since then I’ve been fortunate enough to tour the world, read James Baldwin and develop deep friendships with musicians whom I love and respect and who are openly gay. Hip-hop goes for gay marriage 2013-04-02T15:27:00Z I was retracing James Baldwin’s steps through Paris, while asking myself where Baldwin might be living if he were in the city now. James Baldwin’s Paris 2014-01-17T21:44:03Z In a conversation published in Essence magazine in 1984, Audre Lorde and James Baldwin engaged in an impassioned debate centered on the plight of black people living under the weight of racism in America. A Memoir of Black Life in the ‘Other America’ 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z But, as Perry’s biography illuminates, she was at the center of a world of black intellectuals, including her close friend James Baldwin. What to Read Before or After You See ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z This documentary looks at the life of the poet, from her childhood to her friendships with figures like Malcolm X and James Baldwin. What’s on TV Sunday: Country Music Awards and ‘The Walking Dead’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z Even James Baldwin was stymied as a dramatist by such cultural gatekeeping. Is It Finally Twilight for the Theater’s Sacred Monsters? 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Tucked into the back of the community center’s second floor, the bookstore’s airy, high-ceilinged home carries a diverse selection, including classic novels like James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room” and contemporary nonfiction by Sarah Schulman. At a Gay-Specific Bookstore, Just Books on a Shelf Won’t Do 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z James Baldwin was a friend and intellectual sparring partner, whose work, read alongside hers, can sometimes seem, as Perry puts it, like a “call-and-response.” A New Biography of a Brilliant Playwright Who Died Too Young 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z No review of travel writing is complete without James Baldwin’s travel essays from “Notes of a Native Son.” The 10 best travel writers you’ve never read but should 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z She was at a screening of the James Baldwin documentary I Am Not Your Negro at London’s Barbican arts centre, and it was the interval. The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Dorner’s obsession with reclaiming his name made me go back and re-read James Baldwin’s signature essay “Nobody Knows My Name,” from the eponymous book. Christopher Dorner was not a monster 2013-02-14T23:26:00Z “I have never seen myself as a spokesman,” James Baldwin once said in an interview. Finally, a Screenplay by James Baldwin 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z They came not long after books like Gore Vidal’s “The City and the Pillar,” Truman Capote’s “Other Voices, Other Rooms” and James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room” — literature catered to a straight audience, and teeming with shame. In Life and Music, Ned Rorem Was Unwaveringly Himself 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z Simone soon befriended Hughes, and through him she dove into the beating heart of that era’s young black intelligentsia, becoming close to both James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry, who would become godmother to Simone’s daughter. Books of The Times: Under a Strange, Soulful Spell 2010-02-19T05:52:00Z In “The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation,” Tubbs resurrects these women and shows them to be players with agency and influence. Review | ‘The Three Mothers’ honors the women who made Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z This correspondent has officially been outed as James Campbell, a biographer of James Baldwin and a longtime editor at the magazine. Columns That Scrutinized, and Skewered, the Literary World 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z James Baldwin, at one point, writes: "Don't try and get away from the things that hurt you – sometimes that's all you got." Marianne Jean-Baptiste: 'Kindness is a religion, and so is honesty' 2013-06-02T06:00:12Z “It’s not until you get to Wallace Thurman, and then eventually James Baldwin, that it’s more open.” Robert Jones Jr. Is Son of Baldwin, and More 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z James Baldwin, who was Hansberry’s friend, described himself, in a speech that he gave to raise funds for it, as deeply moved by the play. Oscar Isaac, Rachel Brosnahan and the Draw of a Neglected Hansberry Play 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Nearby, the marquee of the Apollo Theater, at 253 West 125th Street, is scheduled to read “Happy 90th Birthday James Baldwin.” Honoring James Baldwin's 90th Birthday in Harlem 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z “Samuel music,” is how Raoul Peck, the director of the James Baldwin documentary, “I Am Not Your Negro,” which is narrated by Mr. Jackson, described it. The Samuel L. Jackson Method 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z James Baldwin said that to be black and relatively conscious is “to be in a rage almost all the time”. My search for Mr Woke: a dating diary 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Or at least his subject, the writer James Baldwin, had. In ‘Exterminate All the Brutes,’ Raoul Peck Takes Aim at White Supremacy 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z I’d also suggest reading the work of writers such as James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, Jr., who spent their lives struggling against oppressive systems of power. What Should I Do About My Rage? 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z And that pressure has a sound: police radio, James Baldwin’s voice, protesters chanting “I can’t breathe.” The Dance on Camera Festival, When Dance Is Only on Camera 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Inspired by James Baldwin’s essays, the novelist and poet threads his experiences of growing up in Trinidad and living in Korea with 18th-century slave narratives to explore institutional whiteness and “blame culture.” New & Noteworthy, From Christmas Stories to a Photographer Nanny 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z But Wright’s example inspired the young James Baldwin to move to Paris in 1948. Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z James Baldwin learned how to lock and load the English language as a child prodigy storefront preacher. When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr. 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Many of the intellectual heavyweights are here, from Hannah Arendt to Susan Sontag to James Baldwin. New & Noteworthy 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Haley freelanced in New York City after the war and became friends with James Baldwin. Review: In ‘Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation,’ a Reputation Made and Lost 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z I was most moved by Maya Angelou when viewing her in connection to an artist I will always learn from: James Baldwin. Talking Back to Maya Angelou 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Charles Gaines’s more imposing installation uses different systems of transcription to turn speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. and James Baldwin into giant musical scores. Review | A searing, all-star art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z “It’s exciting that they are applying their uniquely powerful theatrical vision to the remarkable life and work of James Baldwin.” Stew & Heidi take on James Baldwin in 'Notes of a Native Song' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Consider James Baldwin in Paris, Christopher Isherwood in Berlin, and Elizabeth Bishop, who broke the heart of a boy from Pittsfield and later lived with an architect named Lota near Rio de Janeiro. A Gay Pilot Reflects on What Travel Means to Queer Folks 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z James Baldwin wrote that “to accept one’s past — one’s history — is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it.” Review | Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s ‘My Monticello’ explores America’s racist past — and present — with grace 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z “Know whence you came,” James Baldwin once wrote in a letter to his fourteen-year-old nephew. The Rebirth of a Nation 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Regina King has long been an odds-on favourite as best supporting actress for her role in the adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk. Beale Street's Regina King: 'Awards season is like a new full-time job!' 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z “Notes of a Native Song,” which runs at REDCAT through Saturday night, is a mash-up of songs, speech, visuals and musical styles that explores the work of 20th century man of letters James Baldwin. Essential Arts & Culture: Mighty year-enders, naked hotel theater, a 'Messiah' for rich and poor 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z In his 1985 essay “Here Be Dragons,” James Baldwin wrote: “At bottom, what I had learned was that the male desire for a male roams everywhere, avid, desperate, unimaginably lonely.” Robert Jones Jr. Is Son of Baldwin, and More 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Do you grab an observant, masterful novelist to herd the conversation, like Mary McCarthy or James Baldwin? Why a ‘Peanuts’ Collection Has Stuck With Jeremy Denk, Concert Pianist 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z It calls to mind the rolling, almost musical style of James Baldwin’s prose and mirrors his way of eloquently capturing the ugliest stories. Review | In ‘The Gone Dead,’ a woman’s questions about her father’s death reveal a town’s racist history 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z In “How I Got Over,” he reflects on black expatriates — from Richard Wright to James Baldwin, Pinckney’s lodestar — who left for Europe to escape Jim Crow, only to witness racism by another name: Islamophobia. Darryl Pinckney on Race, Class and Being ‘Busted in New York’ 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z To call “I Am Not Your Negro” a movie about James Baldwin would be to understate Mr. Peck’s achievement. Review: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Will Make You Rethink Race 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z James Baldwin was famously hostile toward Wright’s novel; he argued that Bigger’s character perpetuated the stereotype that black men are predisposed to violence. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Native Son’ and ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z The stack of books in a 2016 sculpture called “Tipping Point” is just a stack of books until you see that they’re all the same book, James Baldwin’s 1963 eschatological tract, “The Fire Next Time.” Zoe Leonard’s Messages Strike Hard — and Cast a Spell 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z There one of her students was the young sister of James Baldwin, whose writings were instrumental in turning Ringgold’s painting — mostly Impressionistic landscape through the 1950s — in a political direction. Faith Ringgold’s Path of Maximum Resistance 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z More sincerely, Rock concluded his monologue with a quotation from James Baldwin: “‘Not everything that is faced can be changed,’” he said, “‘but nothing can be changed until it is faced.’” Jim Carrey Plays Joe Biden in ‘S.N.L.’ Season Premiere 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z In “Notes of a Native Son,” James Baldwin surveys in pungent commentary certain phases of the contemporary scene as they relate to the citizenry of the United States, particularly Negroes. Langston Hughes on James Baldwin’s ‘Notes of a Native Son’ 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Just as James Baldwin worried “that the bitterness which had helped to kill my father could also kill me,” Pardlo made a similarly troublesome observation about his father. Review | How a young writer emerged from a troubled past to a Pulitzer 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z “If it had not been written by James Baldwin, I doubt that it would deserve more than a mention in a reviewers’ roundup of recent books,” Julius Lester wrote in The Times in 1977. A James Baldwin Book, Forgotten and Overlooked for Four Decades, Gets Another Life 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z A black friend of James Baldwin’s, after seeing “The Grapes of Wrath,” insisted that its star had “colored blood.” Review | What kept Henry Fonda and James Stewart friends for 50 years? 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z "James Baldwin once said the most despicable thing a person can be is indifferent to other people's pain," Free said, adding, "Please don't be indifferent to our pain." "Nomadland" wins big at the 2021 Oscars, which made history — and some unfortunate choices 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z James Baldwin, more celebrated as a novelist and civil rights campaigner than as a dramatist, drew on his own life for this 1954 play, set in a pentecostal church in Harlem. Let the Right One In; The Amen Corner; Sweet Bird of Youth – review 2013-06-15T23:05:22Z For those reasons, she said, it was not difficult to part with poignant letters from James Baldwin, who encouraged her to write “Caged Bird,” and Malcolm X, whom she met in Ghana. Schomburg Center Acquires Maya Angelou Archive 2010-10-26T20:15:00Z In “Begin Again,” you revisit James Baldwin’s work through the lens of today’s racial injustice. Eddie Glaude Jr., an Expert on James Baldwin, Reveals His Favorite Baldwin Book 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Only James Baldwin replied, showing up at Haley’s place unannounced one afternoon and chatting with him. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Emma Berdis’s son, James Baldwin, became an amazing artist and activist and lived into the 1980s, but died of cancer of the esophagus. Review | ‘The Three Mothers’ honors the women who made Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z “I never had a childhood,” the writer James Baldwin once said. A James Baldwin Book, Forgotten and Overlooked for Four Decades, Gets Another Life 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Here, one feels the forceful impress of James Baldwin’s intelligence. Ta-Nehisi Coates blazes a singular intellectual path in 'We Were Eight Years in Power' 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z “The Last Interview: James Baldwin” was released at the end of 2014. The Books We Loved in 2015 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z The teens read James Baldwin and Eve Babitz just for kicks, as teens do. New York, ‘Gossip Girl’ Loves You, Again 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Two, James Baldwin: he’d temper Faulkner’s drunken foolishness while being vivacious and witty. Jesmyn Ward: By the Book 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Avedon had a lifelong commitment to the civil rights struggle, enriched by a close friendship with James Baldwin that dated back to their high school days. Avedon at 100: Photos of Seduction 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z In addition to Ms. Simmons’ own words, she has also written out most of the James Baldwin essay “On Being White … and Other Lies,” published in Essence magazine in 1984. Words and Actions: Queens Museum Shows About Seeking Racial Justice 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z James Baldwin, he attempted suicide multiple times, and this took a great toll on him, but this is not something we mention often when we think about James Baldwin. ‘I Came From Nothing’: An Undocumented Writer Defies the Odds 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Quoting James Baldwin and telling of her own childhood in Brooklyn, she sped past outrage and sorrow, getting straight to a sense of conviction. At the NYC Winter Jazzfest, Learning How Less Can Be More 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z The novel opens with a quote from James Baldwin: “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” The Coming of Age of Transgender Literature 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z He was a close friend of Richard Wright, and often shared the illustrious company of James Baldwin, Chester Himes and others. A Black Writer Found Tolerance in France, and a Different Racism 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Both are avid readers with an appreciation for the likes of James Baldwin and Bell Hooks. Date Lab: They had so much in common it was ‘kind of eerie’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z They march, protest, avoid gluten and quote James Baldwin. Epiphany in Trump Town: Finding common ground with the “American Sniper” crowd 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z “Malcolm would probably be like, ‘I told you so,’ just like James Baldwin would be like, ‘I told you so’. 'The humanity of black characters is often forgotten': behind Oscar-tipped One Night in Miami 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z At the core of the library’s collections is the written word, represented by items from those cuneiform tablets to modern manuscripts by Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Tom Wolfe and others. A Cabinet of Wonders Opens Wide 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z He added, “James Baldwin said if you live long enough, they’ll build a sculpture of you.” A 40-year-old Painting on Gun Violence Takes on New Meaning 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z James Baldwin’s passport and Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves The museum celebrates the achievements of Baldwin, the acclaimed novelist, and Ali, the three-time world heavyweight champion. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z I especially was affected by James Baldwin’s review of Alex Haley’s “Roots.” James Baldwin’s Review, Babe Ruth and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z “If Beale Street Could Talk” Barry Jenkins adapts the James Baldwin novel in a style that transcends plot mechanics and character beats to become a tremulous ode to the fragility and fierce power of love. Best movies of 2018: ‘Roma’ is intimate, epic and the year’s finest 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z I painted the eyes of people — James Baldwin, Judy Collins, Oscar Wilde and other people who are defenders and protectors. Barry Manilow’s Bubble and a House of Whimsy 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z But it will also, if only temporarily, let you sit in the glory that is James Baldwin’s company. Black History Month viewing guide: the best new releases to see in February 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Peck, the director of “I Am Not Your Negro,” based on the writings of James Baldwin, found her to be supportive of even his most far-afield ideas. She’s the Hollywood Power Behind Those Seeking a Voice 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z James Baldwin said to him, “You’re not a writer until you have a shelf.” Books of The Times: ?Lucky Bruce,? a Memoir by Bruce Jay Friedman - Review 2011-10-10T22:35:49Z James Baldwin famously criticized Wright’s hero in “Native Son” by noting that “Wright imagined Bigger, but Bigger never could have imagined Wright.” Tayari Jones: In Praise of Ann Petry 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z In 1979 James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing a work in progress, “Remember This House.” #WhiteHouseSoWhite: “I Am Not Your Negro” illuminates America’s ongoing race problem 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” too was in development and James Baldwin was working on the screenplay. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z But acknowledging this country's "brutal truth," as James Baldwin puts it, is at least a step in the right direction. My mother and I haven't talked about the Atlanta spa attacks 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z Speaking of Harlem, its native son James Baldwin’s nonfiction could knock anyone’s socks off and does in this reissue that includes some of his best essays. 10 books to read in September 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z A version of this review appears in print on April 28, 2014, on page C7 of the with the headline: Celebrating a Poem and a Novel by James Baldwin, With Movement. Dance Review: ‘Baldwin Through Dance’ Adapts a Poem and a Novel 2014-04-27T21:15:38Z There I talk about the tension between Bobby Kennedy and James Baldwin and his compatriots. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Jones’s mother once had a friend who died of AIDS; at twelve, Jones finds a photograph of the man in her volume of “Another Country,” by James Baldwin. Saeed Jones’s Striking Memoir About Race, Sex, and Self-Invention 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z James Baldwin's 90th birthday falls this week, and to mark the occasion, I've been listening to him read. Listening to James Baldwin (and others) in 'Calliope Author Readings' 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Barry Jenkins’ film is based on James Baldwin’s 1974 novel of the same name, and follows a young couple in 1970s New York whose lives are thrown into chaos when the man is wrongly imprisoned. A Literary Guide to the Oscars 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Forster, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison have all been put through the dramatic wringer recently, many of them emerging as wet rags. Onstage, the Pen Is Usually Duller Than the Sword 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Anxious to be a writer after reading James Baldwin, he contributed to Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery magazine and numerous sports publications. Walter Dean Myers, children’s author, dies at age 76 Porter told the audience, before quoting the late author James Baldwin and thanking his husband. Gay performers shine with several wins at the Emmy Awards 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Just look at James Baldwin, who is being rediscovered 50 years after he was a living revolutionary. Don Lemon Organizes His Books by Color 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z “And she, in breaking up with me, recommended – so I could grow up – that I read James Baldwin: ‘I’m done with you, but I’m going to give you a hint. Barry Jenkins: ‘When you climb the ladder, you send it back down’ 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z And novelist James Baldwin, who praised Heyward's depiction of this strata of Southern life, also complained it omitted how whites helped cause and perpetuate the poverty and criminality the story depicts. Gershwin classic 'Porgy and Bess' to take stage at Seattle Opera 2011-07-24T02:05:27Z The title for my book is not me trying to be James Baldwin; it’s an ode to Baldwin. CNN’s Don Lemon: ‘We’re living in two different realities as Black and White people’ 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Q: Your writing style is very conversational, yet you also quote people like James Baldwin and W.E.B. Review | Gabrielle Union on why she speaks so openly about rape in her new book 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z James Baldwin may look fantastically stylish in his Ivy gear. The Making of Black Ivy Style 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Her metamorphosis culturally and politically features a glittering cast of figures — James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, among others — and makes for thrilling viewing. Review: ‘What Happened, Miss Simone?’ Documents Nina Simone’s Rise as Singer and Activist 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Charlotte seems entirely comfortable with Barry as well as with Harlem, where she takes him to Sylvia’s and buys him a James Baldwin paperback. Review: Before Barack, There Was ‘Barry’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z “Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, had so much of the truth of Black people’s lives been seen on the stage,” James Baldwin wrote. 16 New Books Coming in January 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z She worked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was a friend to Malcolm X during his African sojourn, acted alongside Broadway thespians like James Earl Jones and was a confidant to novelist James Baldwin. Maya Angelou, a daughter of the South, a voice for us all 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z It was around this time that her friend, the writer James Baldwin, helped persuade her to write her first volume of autobiography. Obituary: Maya Angelou 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Many major figures get the better parts of their own chapters in “The Free World”: Hannah Arendt, George Orwell, Isaiah Berlin, James Baldwin. ‘The Free World’ Explains How Culture Heated Up During the Cold War 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z How did you first come to read James Baldwin? Barry Jenkins on “The Fire Next Time” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z This is why by the way we reserve the right to criticize, as James Baldwin said, “I love this country above others,” but to paraphrase him, I reserve the right to criticize her perpetually. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The first part of the libretto is made up of a collage of his own writings and others’, such as a breakup letter mixed in with fragments of James Baldwin. Review: In ‘Place,’ a Composer Questions His Comfort, and Power 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Parks, who studied with writer James Baldwin in college, flatly rejects the idea that black characters need to be seen always in relationship to white characters. Suzan-Lori Parks moves a stage beyond race to get to our 'mythic or epic experience' in her plays 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z There’s a small moment in “I Am Not Your Negro,” the documentary from earlier this year about James Baldwin, that sticks. The Glow From ‘The Fire Next Time’ 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Theoharis takes her book’s title from James Baldwin, who described American history as “longer, larger, more various, more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.” Black Lives Matter and the Intrepid Lives That Preceded It 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z “The American soil is full of the corpses of my ancestors,” James Baldwin said in 1965, on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery. The Rebirth of a Nation 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Here are a couple of things that look really interesting: the TEAM's Mission Drift at the Shed, and Rufus Norris's revival of James Baldwin's remarkable The Amen Corner in the Olivier. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-06-07T16:06:29Z Or as James Baldwin said, “If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.” Charleston Needs That African American Museum. And Now. 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z In 1964, when Bey was 12, his parents went to a Baptist church in Queens to hear James Baldwin speak. Review | This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z My favorite books were by James Baldwin and Richard Wright. Ottessa Moshfegh on becoming a writer and her buzzed-about novel, 'Eileen' 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z A tearful King paid tribute to both Jenkins and James Baldwin, whose 1974 novel the film is based on, calling him “one of the great artists of our time”. Oscars save shocks for last with big wins for Green Book and Olivia Colman 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z I feel like, you think if James Baldwin was alive he would be in film today? Barry Jenkins: "'People in Korea don't want to watch black characters,' you can't say that anymore" 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z In one chapter Mr. Toibin compares the writing of James Baldwin and Barack Obama, men who grew up without fathers and learned to, he says, “make it up as they went along.” Books of The Times: Colm Toibin’s ‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother’ Looks at Writers 2012-06-11T20:19:38Z Class, one of the great, unexplored subjects in our disparate black American life, is what separates them, ultimately, but I don’t think even Morrison’s pal, James Baldwin, saw that. Toni Morrison’s Truth 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z “It’s one of the few books by Baldwin that has been off the radar,” Douglas Field, author of “All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin,” said. A James Baldwin Book, Forgotten and Overlooked for Four Decades, Gets Another Life 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z At the Oscars, she paid tribute to her mother, God and the late writer James Baldwin, whose work was the basis for “If Beale Street Could Talk.” Regina King wins Oscar for ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Godwin did disclose that the first in-person production will be a return of its winter hit, a sterling revival of James Baldwin’s gospel-infused play from the 1950s, “The Amen Corner.” Shakespeare Theatre Company sheds a third of its staff 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z In his insistence on such awkward questions, Pinckney proves himself, as one essay title confesses, “Under the Spell of James Baldwin.” Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Almost by way of getting rid of him, Jonathan hands over a copy of what he impulsively calls his favorite book, James Baldwin’s “Another Country.” Review: In ‘Reverberation,’ Singles Adrift in the Big City 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Als suggested the idea after he finished curating a show on James Baldwin at the David Zwirner Gallery in Manhattan in 2019. Joan Didion and the Western Spirit 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z “Letter to My Nephew” is what James Baldwin called the first part of his enduringly urgent essay “The Fire Next Time.” Review: A Message-Heavy Bill T. Jones Dance-Theater Collage 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z I’ve been going through my mom’s stuff, and I found all of her old James Baldwin and Toni Morrison books. How ‘Catcher in the Rye’ Influenced Lenny Kravitz’s Memoir 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Well, since I’ve just admitted the above, probably some more James Baldwin. Attica Locke, Novelist and TV Writer, Has Some Suggestions for Hollywood 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z For me, these works sharpen the meaning of one of my favorite James Baldwin quotes: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” 10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z The beginning of the film features a quote attributed to James Baldwin: “We contain the other, hopelessly and forever.” Cruising New York’s Waterways This Week: Portraits of Former Refugees 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Full of emotions and looking absolutely stunning in an all-white gown, King said, "To be standing here, representing one of the greatest artists of our time, James Baldwin — it's a little surreal." The best Oscars speeches of 2019: Hollywood is changing, slowly but surely 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Those white actors, along the James Baldwin, appeared with him as part of a CBS News roundtable discussion moderated by David Schoenbrun that aired on the same day. "A song of rebellion": How Harry Belafonte's dance with fame fed a life of activism 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z When the mononymous musician and playwright Stew was 9 and living in Los Angeles, he first encountered the name James Baldwin. Stew & Heidi take on James Baldwin in 'Notes of a Native Song' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z She explodes the very idea of gender the way that James Baldwin, in “Notes of a Native Son,” did with race. Two New Volumes by Adrienne Rich, Game-Changing Feminist, Poet and Essayist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z One hears throughout continual echoes of James Baldwin: “I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” Review | Amanda Gorman’s ‘Call Us What We Carry’ is as powerful as ‘The Hill We Climb’ 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z James Baldwin, in his classic essay on movies “The Devil Finds Work,” helped define the affinity and disillusion that Poitier inspired. Sidney Poitier changed movies, and changed lives 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z He had good teachers in high school, and read everything he could get his hands on: the Beats, Theodore Dreiser, Nikki Giovanni, James Baldwin. S.A. Cosby, a Writer of Violent Noirs, Claims the Rural South as His Own 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Collectors shape collections that end up at archives, containing “the messy bits, the unexpected bits” – Malcom X’s papers, for example, or James Baldwin’s early attempts at plays and ideas scribbled on bar napkins. 'It cuts across time': a peek into the world of antiquarian books 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z In the beginning was the word: Fragments of prose by James Baldwin, jokes by Richard Pryor and, later, the testimony of a youth wrongly accused of a crime. How Glenn Ligon Is Using Black and Blue to Begin a Dialogue 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z White, who earlier this year directed Shakespeare Theatre Company’s sterling production of James Baldwin’s rarely revived “The Amen Corner,” was asked to enlist by the company’s literary director, Aaron Malkin. Perspective | This prestigious New York theater has an unlikely season coming. All of the titles are TBA. 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z "I just don't understand why the literature is still being categorised, why Toni Morrison and James Baldwin are in a certain section, instead of just in the 'literature' section," she said. Novelist Sapphire complains of 'very real' racism in the arts 2011-08-23T14:37:08Z Chris Rock, the comedian scheduled to host the awards, also kept on message after taking to the church’s stage following Mr. Jordan, reciting “My Dungeon Shook” by James Baldwin. Amid Oscar Boycott Plans by Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith, Stars Gather for King Day 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z And I keep going back to James Baldwin, “The Fire Next Time,” I read it again and again. Poet Ross Gay is on a roll: He talks gardens and gratitude 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Baker was among several prominent Black Americans, especially artists and writers, who found refuge in France after the two World Wars, including famed writer and intellectual James Baldwin. Black artist Josephine Baker honored at France’s Pantheon 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Museum exhibits include Journey Gallery, the history, culture and art of the region’s African-American community in photos, artifacts and narratives, and “Bearing Witness from Another Place: James Baldwin in Turkey Photographs by Sedat Pakay.” Make your wallet happy with free-entry days at area museums 2013-01-31T19:56:58Z Divided into three parts — A prayer for the 9/11 dead, a meditation on Martin Luther King Jr. and a eulogy for James Baldwin — this book is a must. The 10 books to read in February 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Bearing witness is a responsibility that expands justice, James Baldwin wrote. The Creators of ‘On Sugarland’ Build a Site of Mourning and Repair 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z In July 1968, shortly after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil unrest that followed, Esquire ran an interview with James Baldwin. Bakari Sellers wanted his memoir to spark tough talks about race. We’re already in the middle of a conflagration. 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z If your favourite doesn't appear, I leave you with these words from James Baldwin: "...-a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named-..." The Great American Novelist tournament: the final 32 2012-07-23T15:19:53Z He chose James Baldwin’s “Amen Corner,” and added gospel songs to the church scenes. For This Theater Leader, a Mission That Goes Beyond the Stage 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z A World Fiction Festival, with a round-table discussion titled “James Baldwin and the Writer’s Life,” will take place on Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Columbia University. Spare Times for July 11-17 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z They were also, along with their friend, James Baldwin, forceful members of the civil-rights movement—indefatigable because they never lost the ability to dream. A Remembrance of Ruby Dee 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z So wrote James Baldwin in 1976, and he repeated his father’s words often. James Baldwin: Pessimist, Optimist, Hero 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z “James Baldwin is a unique and indispensable voice in 20th-century art and ideas,” Mr. Jones said in a statement. ArtsBeat: New York Festival to Celebrate the Work of James Baldwin 2014-01-15T17:18:20Z Which was what we used to drink, in quantity, and often in the company of the expatriate author James Baldwin. Back to Provence 2011-06-17T18:55:00Z James Baldwin's blistering masterpiece "The Fire Next Time" helps unravel it. Noah Purifoy's smoldering work of art, 'Watts Riot,' is a powerful reminder on the 50th anniversary 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z James Baldwin could have narrated “Get Out,” like Joe Gillis hovering over “Sunset Boulevard”—a posthumous prophetic ghost bearing witness to the ghoulish events. “Get Out” and the Death of White Racial Innocence 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Echoing James Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me” and others, the project is epistolary: Guy frames the movie as an address to his young children. All Together Now for Tribeca Festival’s 20th Anniversary Edition 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z I was asked by another interviewer why James Baldwin was getting so much shine lately. CNN’s Don Lemon: ‘We’re living in two different realities as Black and White people’ 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z “A turning point for me was the discovery of a short story by James Baldwin about the black urban experience. It gave me permission to write about my own experiences,” he wrote. Walter Dean Myers, celebrated young adult author, dies at 76 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z One sonnet addresses “Seven of the ten things I love in the face/of James Baldwin.” Sonnets That Reckon With Donald Trump’s America 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z For example: Roebuck Wright, as played by Jeffrey Wright, resembles James Baldwin in his speech patterns, body language and manner of dress. ‘The French Dispatch’ Review: Remember Magazines? 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z My husband spent years trying to find, because it’s out of print, “A Rap on Race” by Margaret Mead and James Baldwin. Thandiwe Newton Feeds Her Soul With Critical Race Theory and Cleo Sol 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Some of the most resonant writers are also the most morally difficult: Faulkner, Shakespeare, Flannery O’Connor, James Baldwin. Literature and the moral question 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z “It’s James Baldwin’s sometimes acrimonious love letter to New York, but a love letter nonetheless.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘A Land Imagined’ and ‘The Magnificent Seven’ 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z The story is as follows: In response to the unrest in Birmingham, the attorney general called James Baldwin and other prominent Black people, and a few liberal white people, to meet with him quietly. Lorraine Hansberry, American radical: She pushed RFK to make “a moral commitment” on civil ri... 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z As the first member of his family to attend university, Mr. Louis became drawn to writers like Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and his compatriot Didier Eribon. For the French Author Édouard Louis, His Books Are His Weapon 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The organization continues its outward push with this year’s installment of the festival, “James Baldwin, This Time!” ArtsBeat: New York Festival to Celebrate the Work of James Baldwin 2014-01-15T17:18:20Z In a recent interview, Abdul-Jabbar spoke with The Associated Press about the importance of project, his unforgettable conversation with King, and how Emmett Till and James Baldwin were catalysts to his social justice journey. Q&A: Abdul-Jabbar talks new documentary, MLK, social justice 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Among their treasures are Thomas Jefferson’s handwritten copy of the Declaration of Independence; an original Gutenberg Bible from 1455; an unpublished chapter from Malcolm X’s autobiography and an extensive James Baldwin archive. A Music Historian Takes a Top Job at the New York Public Library 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z The idea for “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” arose during conversations with friends, including James Baldwin, whom she met in Paris. Maya Angelou, writer and poet, dies at age 86 Scores and boxed sets share space on the white shelves with books by Thomas Piketty, the economist known for his studies of income inequality; James Baldwin; and Amiri Baraka. The Pianist of the Resistance Captures a Surprise Award 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z A version of this article appears in print on January 19, 2014, on page TR1 of the with the headline: James Baldwin’s Paris. James Baldwin’s Paris 2014-01-17T21:44:03Z The second, by Raoul Peck, is narrated by Samuel L Jackson and is based on an unfinished work by James Baldwin about civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. Fight the power: documentaries to unleash the activist in you 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Using phrases from real events or from the writings of figures like James Baldwin and Malcolm X is a Ligon trademark. Inside Art: A Glenn Ligon at National Gallery; John Cage at MoMA 2012-11-15T23:35:19Z He commissioned Susan Sontag’s dispatch from Hanoi at the height of the Vietnam War, and James Baldwin’s ruminations on race in America after the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As Men Are Canceled, So Too Their Magazine Subscriptions 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z Lorde, like James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, is vulnerable to selective quotation. A Timely Collection of Vital Writing by Audre Lorde 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z I wanted to make a movie that felt the way it feels to read James Baldwin. The Script Secrets of Gillian Flynn, John Krasinski, Barry Jenkins and Christopher McQuarrie 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Rufus Norris’s vivid revival of James Baldwin’s “Amen Corner,” at the National Theater, follows a route that is almost the reverse of that taken by Mr. McPherson. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Heaven and Earth 2013-07-02T16:03:02Z Death of Manipulation: "Equal in Paris" by James Baldwin Baldwin, a young poor American living in Paris, spends his time sitting in cafés, unable to write. Greg Baxter's top 10 memento mori 2010-07-21T11:15:00Z As Porter quoted James Baldwin and asserted that “We all have the right” to exist, the ceremony took on a new layer of significance. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2019 Emmys 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z James Baldwin put one of them this way: “It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and, although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.” A Sweeping New History Looks Back at 100 Years of Black Filmmaking 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z “I didn’t grow up as a voracious reader. James Baldwin was recommended to me by a girlfriend, who was a little older than me, more mature, worldlier, smarter, more attractive,” he says, with a laugh. Barry Jenkins: ‘When you climb the ladder, you send it back down’ 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z He read the books of James Baldwin and the poems of Allen Ginsberg, and saw the films of Gus Van Sant. Édouard Louis Would Like to Talk About Theater Now 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z But it was Sotomayor who sounded the alarm in an opinion evoking nothing less than James Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time” and adding quotations from W.E.B. America’s criminal injustice system: A private eye sheds light on the gross indignities suffered by the poor 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z Alex Haley, whose centenary we mark this year, was my James Baldwin. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Wish I’d caught a preview screening of “I Am Not Your Negro,” based on an unfinished James Baldwin manuscript. At the Movies in New York City, Cocktail in Hand 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z In a college literature seminar, she swapped stories with James Baldwin about her father’s Harlem, without imagining that one day she would be a key part of the neighborhood’s cultural life. At the Studio Museum in Harlem, a curator who loves art ‘on a cellular level’ 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Regina King won best supporting actress for her performance in the James Baldwin adaptation “If Beale Street Could Talk,” setting the star up for what is expected to be sweep toward the Academy Awards. Golden Globes Honor ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ ‘Green Book’ 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z All of the soundtrack choices ground the surreal nature of what we're seeing in granite truths, and audio overlays of recitations by the likes of James Baldwin and Gil Scott-Heron boldface the subtext. "Lovecraft Country" is an intoxicating, myth-shattering hero's journey through a map of Black fear 2020-08-16T04:00:00Z The book includes personal pieces by Shatner, which serve as introductions to excerpts from classic writing about horses throughout the centuries, by writers from the Brothers Grimm to James Baldwin, from Aesop to Jack London. Boldly Saddling Up 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z And yet I couldn’t actually picture a young James Baldwin living in any of these places. James Baldwin’s Paris 2014-01-17T21:44:03Z An exceedingly personal book called “Nothing Personal,” with a text by his high school classmate James Baldwin, was the result. Art In Review: Richard Avedon: ‘Murals & Portraits’ 2012-07-05T20:36:16Z Just consider the reporting of Rachel Carson, the dramas of Dalton Trumbo, the passion of James Baldwin. The written word is under siege. A call to arms for all purveyors of truth 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z It was not the theatrical parlance of James Baldwin or Lorraine Hansberry, major writers whose earlier plays introduced important black voices and visions to Broadway. August Wilson and the long awaited triumph of “Fences” 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z An early galley was sent to Toni Morrison, who strongly endorsed the book, calling it “required reading” and likening Mr. Coates to James Baldwin. Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Making of a Public Intellectual 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The contested Mailer essay was criticized by James Baldwin for its hypersexualization of Black people, among other issues. Reports of Norman Mailer’s cancellation have been greatly exaggerated 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z On another, Dr. Blight mentioned a previous book project relating to James Baldwin. Frederick Douglass, Seen Up Close 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z James Baldwin became a mentor and personal friend. A Painter and Social Activist With an ‘Unruly Nature’ 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z “A lot of public high school students will not have heard of him, and that’s a tragedy. The burden of protecting James Baldwin’s hugely important legacy is on teachers of English.” James Baldwin, Born 90 Years Ago, Is Fading in Classrooms 2014-04-24T11:30:01Z James Baldwin, buried on December 8, 1987, often looks like today’s most vital and most cherished new African American author. Reading James Baldwin in the Black Lives Matter era 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z The look at essayist and novelist James Baldwin is competing for an Oscar in the best documentary category. Box Office: 'Split' Tops 'Rings,' as 'Space Between Us' Bombs 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z She said that “Marrow,” begun around the time that Hansberry’s friend James Baldwin composed “Giovanni’s Room,” “potentially changes what we might think of as the timeline for black queer studies.” Unseen Script Offers New Evidence of a Radical Lorraine Hansberry 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z I missed her letter to Daly, too, and her public conversations with Adrienne Rich and James Baldwin, which felt like genuine events in their time. A Timely Collection of Vital Writing by Audre Lorde 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z But also, it was one of James Baldwin’s old haunts. In the Company of Wes Anderson 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z The great writer and activist James Baldwin left this call to action for writers and other artists: "You are responsible to those people to lighten their darkness." Making sense of a senseless world: How children's books can mitigate the horror around us 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z In an earlier version of “Notes,” Smith played the writer James Baldwin. Anna Deavere Smith Contains Multitudes 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z When James Baldwin was a guest on “Today,” NBC stations in Mississippi cut to an old movie. Books of The Times: Bruce Watson?s ?Freedom Summer? in Mississippi 2010-07-18T21:55:00Z Talented English majors don’t accept underpaid jobs in publishing to move inventory; they dream of discovering the next James Baldwin or Alice Munro. Best Sellers Sell the Best Because They’re Best Sellers 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z That notion was crystallized by the Shakespeare Theatre Company in February, when it took on the rarely revived “The Amen Corner,” a gospel play from the 1950s by James Baldwin. Perspective | Best theater of 2020: Sondheim’s birthday, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Mary Neely, ‘The Amen Corner’ and more 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Simpson, and "I Am Not Your Negro," about civil rights leaders through the eyes of late U.S. novelist James Baldwin. #OscarsSoWhite to #OscarsLessWhite; diverse nominees stand out 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Why James Baldwin as an influence for both your format and your inspiration? CNN’s Don Lemon: ‘We’re living in two different realities as Black and White people’ 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z “Notes of a Native Son,” by James Baldwin. Chris Bosh’s Favorite Basketball Writers? Kobe Bryant Makes the List. 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Like James Baldwin, Morrison insisted that such lives were epic and poetic, and that they held the key to understanding every single thing about America. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z In this way, Mr. Peck’s film is “the capstone, the crown of these documentaries,” said Richard Blint, a scholar at the Pratt Institute who is working on a project about James Baldwin and American cinema. Finally, a Screenplay by James Baldwin 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z To combat bullies, he read everything he could to be smarter than them, finding kinship with James Baldwin. A Playwright Who Won’t Let Anyone Off the Hook 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z I’m sure the president has read James Baldwin, but he may have missed “Giovanni’s Room” — a short novel of immeasurable sadness. By the Book : John Irving: By the Book 2012-06-07T15:45:22Z Two years ago, Mr. Als produced a kind of rough draft version of it called “James Baldwin/Jim Brown and the Children” for the Artist’s Institute at Hunter College. James Baldwin: Pessimist, Optimist, Hero 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z “Whiteness is a metaphor for power,” James Baldwin tells us. Akala: ‘As I grew up, I became embarrassed by my mother’s whiteness' 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Truly, what else was there left to say about race in America after the words of James Baldwin? ‘Sometimes, it’s shocking’: Raoul Peck on his bold new colonialism series 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z I adore James Baldwin's work, I admire the man, so there was this idea in my head that the best way through was gonna be to preserve as much of the book as possible. Barry Jenkins: "'People in Korea don't want to watch black characters,' you can't say that anymore" 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z It is called freedom, or what James Baldwin, in another context, called ‘‘the common history—ours.’’ The Unsparing Confessions of ‘‘Giovanni’s Room’’ 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The problem here is that James Baldwin’s contribution to the understanding of whiteness is more or less erased. Sexist Silences and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z “James Baldwin said: ‘Nothing can be changed until it is faced.’ Kathryn Bigelow on Detroit: ‘There’s a radical desire not to face the reality of race’ 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Her nemesis was Robert Moses, the city’s powerful master builder and advocate of urban renewal, or wholesale neighbourhood clearance – what author James Baldwin termed “negro removal”. How one woman harnessed people power to ‘save’ old New York 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Who else besides her beloved James Baldwin will guide us through the hard times and harder truths? ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z James Baldwin James Baldwin is to be read by everyone, everything, all of it. Thandiwe Newton Feeds Her Soul With Critical Race Theory and Cleo Sol 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z “For the horrors of the American Negro’s life there has been almost no language,” as James Baldwin once noted. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Literary Freedom as an Essential Human Right 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Building on James Baldwin, Jesmyn Ward’s anthology looks at the joy and pain of being black in America. Nine Great New Books for August 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Barry Jenkins: I engaged with the James Baldwin estate I guess like five years ago, and just started slowly building a relationship to get to the point where they could trust me with his legacy. Barry Jenkins: "'People in Korea don't want to watch black characters,' you can't say that anymore" 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z After work one quiet Sunday night I spotted “The World” on the shelf in the “Essays” section, equidistant from volumes by James Baldwin and Virginia Woolf. World class: Remembering legendary travel writer Jan Morris 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Lewis and James Baldwin to a loaf of bread, a pile of dead leaves and a handsome framed drawing by the artist Carl D’Alvia. 2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z James: But that's part of the gift of James Baldwin, he's so timeless in his language, like Shakespearean in a way. Barry Jenkins: "'People in Korea don't want to watch black characters,' you can't say that anymore" 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Spanning four decades of Morrison’s illustrious career, this collection includes a stirring eulogy to James Baldwin, a prayer for the victims of 9/11 and insights into “Beloved” and her other novels. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z I think of James Baldwin, recalling his rage at his dead father in “Notes of a Native Son,” or Lorrie Moore, in the story “Referential,” describing a mother’s longing for her troubled son. Reading in the material world 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z It’s in conversation with works by James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison and especially King. In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z There was a lot of James Baldwin in the house, as well. Ottessa Moshfegh: By the Book 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z “We seemed to be on the same page. Anybody who tells me they’ve read Bell Hooks and James Baldwin is probably okay.” Date Lab: They had so much in common it was ‘kind of eerie’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Raoul Peck’s documentary uses James Baldwin’s words to paint a portrait not only of the writer in his time, but also of the ideas that stretch beyond his work into our own troubled moment. The Best Movies of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z This was a cat who could rap, as his longtime friend and former roommate James Baldwin might have said. Review: ‘Listen to Me Marlon’ Explores Brando’s Life of Contention 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Coates’s work in turn took inspiration from “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,” an essay by James Baldwin in his “The Fire Next Time.” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Two Books About Muslim Identity 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Colbert, who served as a consultant on White’s production of James Baldwin’s “The Amen Corner,” envisions being a resource for a wider classical canon. Perspective | Challenged to examine their White bias, some theater companies are taking on diversity — from the top 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z “James Baldwin was at his best when he was writing about some aspect of life or politics that reflected his interior self: he contained a multitude of worlds, and those worlds were his true subject.” Sunday Reading: Literary Chronicles 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Moreover, Cott urges on his interlocutors with his own keen insights, and he quotes from Rumi, James Baldwin and dozens of others. What did Maurice Sendak know about the wild things that no one else did? 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z One time, she idly tugged out an issue of The Bayviewer, a magazine that once served the historic black neighborhood that James Baldwin characterized as “the San Francisco America pretends does not exist.” The San Francisco Bookstore Where the Revolution Ends up 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z His memoir is strewn with words from others he read while in prison — Nelson Mandela, James Baldwin, Frantz Fanon, Frederick Douglass. ‘Solitary’ Is an Uncommonly Powerful Memoir About Four Decades in Confinement 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z It’s like James Baldwin said: Entertainment is a narcotic. Thandiwe Newton Feeds Her Soul With Critical Race Theory and Cleo Sol 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z James Baldwin recalled first meeting Lorraine Hansberry in 1958 at the Actors Studio in Manhattan after a workshop production of “Giovanni’s Room,” a play based on his novel of the same name. Onstage This Fall, the Enduring Friendship of Baldwin and Hansberry 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z James Baldwin famously wrote beautiful and thoughtful novels about people from multiple ethnic and racial backgrounds, for example, and Henry James was renowned for his portrayal of female characters. What the New York Times gets wrong about the "American Dirt" controversy 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z “This is a period piece about New York. It’s James Baldwin’s sometimes acrimonious love letter to New York, but a love letter nonetheless.” ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Offers a Tour of a Lost New York 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z He later moved to Atlanta, where he was active on the local theater scene, appearing in productions of August Wilson’s “Jitney,” James Baldwin’s “The Amen Corner” and other plays. Taurean Blacque, Actor Best Known for ‘Hill Street Blues,’ Dies at 82 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Gefter lingers over photo sessions with subjects like Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin and James Baldwin, and makes the case for Avedon as one of the 20th century’s most consequential artists. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Like James Baldwin or Raymond Carver, he is writing about a failed father, and emotional distance is necessary to guard against anger or destructive bitterness. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z In Paris, he became friends with expatriate black writers Richard Wright and James Baldwin. Peter Abrahams, whose novels detailed South Africa’s racial injustice, dies at 97 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z “Someone who could have become the Edward Said of Africa or the James Baldwin of our time.” A Provocative Satirist Left a Pervasive Legacy, Influencing African Writing 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z It’s why I tie it to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book and James Baldwin – being rendered invisible… I looked at that Yale student screaming… This is not about reason; it’s first about emotion. Anne-Marie Slaughter says Princeton should take students seriously on Woodrow Wilson: “This is about that sense that we are watching black teenagers be shot in cold blood” 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Three of the 12 essays focus on important African Americans whose careers spanned the century: performer Bert Williams, writer James Baldwin and musical legend Nina Simone. ‘American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building’ 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Deeper trouble lurks below the surface of the novel, where there lies, as James Baldwin put it, “a continuation, a complement of that monstrous legend it was written to destroy.” A New Adaptation of “Native Son” Reaches the Limits of What the Text Has to Offer 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z I grew up reading very respectable, socially conscious black literature by the likes of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin. Literary Idol: Nelson George on Chester Himes 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Reviewing James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son” in The New York Times Book Review in 1956, Hughes called it “thought-provoking, tantalizing, irritating, abusing, and amusing.” ‘Selected Letters of Langston Hughes’ 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Many of James Baldwin’s books were written, completed or so deeply influenced by his time in Paris that it is nearly impossible to separate his literary legacy from the city itself. James Baldwin’s Paris 2014-01-17T21:44:03Z For it, his influences range from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window,” James Baldwin, high school fights and Trisha Brown. Dance in NYC This Week 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Each one commemorates a site where a famed neighborhood figure — among them Jackson Pollock, James Baldwin and the activist Jane Jacobs — lived, or where historic events unfolded. Interactive Shadowboxes Breathe Life Into the Legacies of Village Artists 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z This all prompted me to look up the spiritual’s “but fire next time” lyrics – and the title of the James Baldwin book. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: The Water Is Rising, Rising, Rising 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z My guests for the actual dinner would be two male writer heroes of mine, James Baldwin and Federico García Lorca. Deborah Levy Would Like to Drink With Virginia Woolf 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z It was her friend James Baldwin who recognized in this charismatic and frank talker a writer whose story demanded to be told. How Maya Angelou became the voice of America 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Where autobiographical writing by black men is concerned, perhaps no figure looms as large as James Baldwin’s stepfather, David Baldwin. Review | How a young writer emerged from a troubled past to a Pulitzer 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z But that’s James Baldwin — nothing is easy with reading and understanding James Baldwin. The Script Secrets of Gillian Flynn, John Krasinski, Barry Jenkins and Christopher McQuarrie 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z A must-watch because… The Black Lives Matter movement has put James Baldwin on everyone’s reading list: this doc perfectly complements his writing. 20 must-see documentaries to explain the world in 2020 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Peck’s earlier features include “Lumumba,” a scripted biography of the Congolese leader, and “I am Not Your Negro,” a documentary drawn from the work of James Baldwin. Review: In ‘The Young Karl Marx,’ a Scruffy Specter Haunts Europe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z While filming Watchmen, King won the best supporting actress Oscar for If Beale Street Could Talk, based on the James Baldwin novel. Regina King on fighting white supremacists in Watchmen: 'My community is living this story' 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The thing about James Baldwin, beyond his utter brilliance and undeniable prescience as a writer and public intellectual, is that he was like the blackest man who ever lived. Black History Month viewing guide: the best new releases to see in February 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z These poems resurrect an eclectic cast of characters, from Sappho to James Baldwin, to reflect on the poet’s vital yet unanswerable question: “What disaster will I deliver to my daughter?” Moving From Elegy to Ecstasy, a Poet Pushes Against the Canon 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z “All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique,” James Baldwin wrote in 1960. In ‘Memorial Drive’ a Poet Evokes Her Childhood and Confronts Her Mother’s Murder 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Steve Almond: Your letter made me think of James Baldwin’s famous formulation that to be African-American in this country “and to be relatively conscious, is to be in a rage almost all the time.” How Do I Deal with My Anger Toward Men? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z As James Baldwin instructs, “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.” The Civil Rights Stories We Need to Remember 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z African-American artists and writers like James Baldwin moved to France to escape racism, but Hurston stayed in America. Reggie Wilson’s ‘Citizen’: Sheer Repetition and Speed 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z As a kid, Jones would dig through piles of his mom’s books looking for inspiration, coming up short every time until he accidentally came across James Baldwin's novel “Another Country.” Saeed Jones on "How We Fight For Our Lives" and writing with "skin in the game" 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z You’re not a writer, James Baldwin said, until you have a shelf. Paul Muldoon Collects His Poetic, Allusive, Satirical Thoughts 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Never have I read a man, other than James Baldwin, who was so unafraid to challenge both White and Black America and the messy madness of race in this country. Perspective | Greg Tate showed me what being a writer in America could mean 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z This year, meanwhile, saw him direct the National's productions of James Baldwin's The Amen Corner and Table, about the experiences of a family over 200 years. Profile: Rufus Norris 2013-10-15T10:42:36Z As the great James Baldwin asked, “If black English isn’t a language, then tell me, what is?” ‘Team Seven’ is an authentic, affecting story of a young black man’s struggle to survive I’m reminded of a quote by the writer James Baldwin: “The terrible thing about being a writer is that you don’t decide to become one, you discover that you are one.” Perspective | Covid-19 took away our family’s second home: The library 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Probably the biggest example of that is James Baldwin writing about Europe, and Paris and Switzerland in particular. Author Elaine Castillo talks about empathy, Jane Austen adaptations, and "How to Read Now" 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Chadwick Boseman embodied a James Baldwin dictum: “History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.” Variations on a Lead 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” by James Baldwin Reflections on the state of civil rights in America. The Top Twenty-Five Most-Read Archive Stories of 2019 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z This stunning documentary concerns the life and writings of James Baldwin, but it’s less focused on tracing the arc of its subject’s life than on the potency of his words. The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z This situation calls to mind James Baldwin's famous observation that “white people are trapped in a history they don’t understand” and that “ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” "Our democracy hangs by a thread": Expert panel says a Trump victory in 2024 will end it 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z In your book you cite the work of a lot of thinkers, including James Baldwin and W.E.B. How Ziwe became your 'Black Friend,' and why she'd rather be loved than feared 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z James Baldwin, who contributed a foreword, praised Meriwether for telling “everyone who can read or feel what it means to be a black man or woman in this country.” Author and activist Louise Meriwether, who wrote the novel ‘Daddy Was a Number Runner,’ dies at 100 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Green said when it comes to his writing career, he always thinks back to his grandfather and to when he was inducted as the inaugural James Baldwin Circle Fellow by the Northwest African American Museum. Hinton Publishing highlights ‘underinvited’ authors 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Soller: Three of you nominated three different works by James Baldwin. The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z If I care about a topic, I believe somebody will too, the same way I do when I read Emily Dickinson or James Baldwin. Ocean Vuong holds space for humor amid grief in latest poetry collection, ‘Time Is a Mother’ 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z As James Baldwin wrote, specifically addressing our nation's history of racism: Were the founding fathers "woke"? Well, compared to the modern-day GOP — definitely 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z James Baldwin as a presence possessed all the gravitas of a movie star, and all the rigor of an angry god. The day Martin Luther King and James Baldwin came to Beverly Hills 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z On this, James Baldwin wrote so brilliantly and cuttingly in his essay "On Being 'White' ... and Other Lies": On Tucker Carlson, Jordan Neely and "how white men fight" 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Was that about, “I need to make sure I have James Baldwin on my list,” or were you thinking about the books themselves? The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Did James Baldwin imagine a queer refugee in New England? Ocean Vuong holds space for humor amid grief in latest poetry collection, ‘Time Is a Mother’ 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z “I had been talking about the importance of being courageous and disruptive in the spirit of dream keepers like Bayard Rustin, James Baldwin and Harry Belafonte,” he said. Farewell to a beloved elder: Activists reflect on Belafonte 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z James Baldwin and Martin Luther King are that ensemble, stuck in Los Angeles, 1968. The day Martin Luther King and James Baldwin came to Beverly Hills 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Billy Porter says his critics can stay mad, weeks after he was cast as James Baldwin for a new biopic. Billy Porter defends James Baldwin biopic gig: 'Question me at your own peril' 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Recently, Porter was announced to be playing the legendary James Baldwin in an upcoming film based on the novelist’s life. Billy Porter returns to his first love at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty,” James Baldwin wrote in 1960, “knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” Perspective | Why are so many Americans poor? Because we allow it, two books argue. 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z When James Baldwin remarked in 1961 how “extremely expensive it is to be poor,” he couldn’t have imagined these receipts. Why Poverty Persists in America 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z We subject James Baldwin to the same false scrutiny. The day Martin Luther King and James Baldwin came to Beverly Hills 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z “We are one-thousand percent confident in Billy’s ability to portray any role, especially James Baldwin.” Billy Porter defends James Baldwin biopic gig: 'Question me at your own peril' 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Morrison joins other Black trailblazers, including writers, who have been featured on Postal Service stamps since 1978, among them James Baldwin, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Novelist Toni Morrison Is Celebrated on Postal Service’s Latest Forever Stamp 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Flewellen signs off all emails with a quote from James Baldwin’s 1963 book about the central role of race in American life, “The Fire Next Time.” For this California archaeologist, Black history isn't a political weapon. It's a personal inspiration 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z She speculated that Butler, “our queen of Pasadena,” would have stocked the classics — James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Langston Hughes. How Octavia Butler inspired a pathbreaking Black-owned Pasadena bookstore 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z He had portraits of the writer James Baldwin, as well as one of his grandmother, Bennie Frances Davis, who was the foundation of his childhood. Perspective | André Leon Talley’s estate auction reveals how he lived and survived 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z It was turned down in a request to distribute James Baldwin’s 1963 book “The Fire Next Time.” College Board faces storm of criticism over AP African American studies 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z After all, James Baldwin said the following about Black police officers and their brutality against the Black community in his 1985 book "The Evidence of Things Not Seen": The complex simplicity of Black cops and white supremacy 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z So there’s a little James Baldwin, there’s a little Toni Morrison. Debra Ann Byrd makes space for artists of color in Shakespeare 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z He had previously curated shows on writers James Baldwin and Toni Morrison and wanted to bring Didion’s work and life to a museum in California. Remembering Joan Didion, beyond her words 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Popularity contest: Writers want Shakespeare and James Baldwin at their dinner parties. Times Past 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z It has also landed Kobabe in the company of Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Mark Twain, authors whose canonical works on race, gender and free expression have been on and off banned lists for decades. How 'Gender Queer: A Memoir' became America's most banned book 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it,” James Baldwin wrote. Opinion | We keep moving from one wrong fight to another. Here’s how to stop. 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z In the Cheshire prison, 20 miles north of New Haven, Johnson read James Baldwin and Richard Wright in a book club. Review | A classic, tragic account of American incarceration 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z “The Paris Diary” covers his stay there and is filled with famous names of people he met — Jean Cocteau, Francis Poulenc, Balthus, Salvador Dali, Paul Bowles, John Cage, Man Ray, and James Baldwin. Ned Rorem, prize-winning composer and writer, dies at 99 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Another intriguing source of friction in the show, whose title derives from James Baldwin’s 1962 “Letter to My Nephew,” is the dance between realism and abstraction. Review | In the galleries: Sobering reminders of gun violence 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Smaller but scene-stealing walk-on parts go to woman of letters Mary McCarthy, philosopher Hannah Arendt, journalist Murray Kempton, poets June Jordan and Sterling Brown, composer Virgil Thomson, and novelists James Baldwin and Norman Mailer. Review | Darryl Pinckney’s new book is a dishy tale of literary Manhattan 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Their friendship is also disappointing to Pinckney’s parents, who would rather have seen him under the wing of James Baldwin or Ralph Ellison. Review: How Elizabeth Hardwick taught a young Black critic to read, write and laugh 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The top-grossing American play in Broadway history, James Baldwin’s earliest play, a 5th Avenue “Vacation” and more highlight a vibrant fall theater slate. Your guide to the Seattle area’s most exciting concerts, shows, exhibits and more in fall 2022 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z “James Baldwin,” she wrote, “plunges the white Southerner into wretched shock somewhat alleviated by hot surges of indignant identity with Negroes.” How a trip to D.C. helped James Baldwin affirm his Southern identity 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z I also teach literature by the likes of William Faulkner, James Baldwin and Octavia Butler — authors who struggled with this country’s unfinished civil war and unfulfilled promise of racial justice. Perspective | DeSantis aims to scare academics. Unfortunately, it’s working. 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Ming Smith documented people everywhere from Harlem to Senegal, also taking ethereal photographs of stars like Sun Ra and James Baldwin. How an overlooked Black collective carved out pathways for a new generation of photographers 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z James Baldwin was correct in issuing this stern warning in "No Name in the Street": "Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." Resisting fascism and winning the education wars: How we can meet the challenge 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z “Not everything that is faced can be changed,” wrote James Baldwin. Opinion | What must still be faced in the Emmett Till tragedy 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Porter became the first openly gay Black man to win an Emmy and, during his moving speech, quoted American writer and activist James Baldwin to thunderous applause. Billy Porter tells the world, 'We all have the right' 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Set primarily in the bohemian New York of the 1950s, James Baldwin’s third novel — published eight years after Brown v. The 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Delaney got to know and befriend an array of modern artists and writers, from Georgia O’Keeffe, Stuart Davis and Alfred Stieglitz to Henry Miller and James Baldwin. Perspective | This artist transformed a trash can fire into a pulsing vision He turns to James Baldwin and other writers for help. Review: The L.A. Philharmonic protests. Who's listening? 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z "People pay for what they do, and, still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become," James Baldwin writes of the American South. There will be no gun control: For many white Americans, the idea of the gun is all they have left 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z For one particularly stellar issue, he enticed James Baldwin to contribute an essay on jazz, which eventually led to friendship with the great Black writer. Review | The tale of a dropout who found purpose in books, travel and just living 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z James Baldwin nodded, adding that on Buffalo’s East Side there are few public parks or other spaces to gather, so the locals get to know each other at the Tops. ‘That’s not the devil. That’s America.’ 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Angela Davis, James Baldwin and more put their faith in the future. How George Floyd Spent His Final Hours France has captured the imagination of wildly varied English-speaking writers, from Edith Wharton to James Baldwin and beyond. Review | Dreaming of France? Two new mystery novels will feed your fantasies. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z It was that alchemy of poetry, vernacular speech and cosmic awareness that made him one of our great bards, on the same plane as Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka. Who will inherit Greg Tate's mantle of Black cultural critic-in-chief? I have a candidate 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The book followed 25 years of classics by Carson McCullers, James Baldwin, Christopher Isherwood, Jane Rule and others. Page-to-Screen: 'The Power of the Dog' is an ideal adaptation of a neglected masterpiece 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z That was the same year James Baldwin traveled to Tallahassee. Review | How the South was transformed by the fall of Jim Crow, and how it wasn’t 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z I used to watch his interviews with James Baldwin and Muhammad Ali as a kid. Hosts were just supposed to guide us from one commercial break to the next. Now we want them to help us make sense of the world. The project, which now numbers more than 300 volumes, publishes classic works of American literature, from James Baldwin to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Eudora Welty, in uniform editions with distinctive black covers. Jason Epstein, publishing executive who shaped literary tastes, dies at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Yet in accordance with James Baldwin's dictum that suffering ennobles nobody, we must recognize that pragmatism, more than empathy, powered their relationship. How the Black-Jewish alliance changed America — and today's struggle for voting rights 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z “You never get the book you wanted,” James Baldwin once observed, “you settle for the book you get.” Appreciation: Like the rest of us, Joan Didion didn't have a plan. Why that made her great 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z We read a lot of stuff about race and culture, like Dante Stewart or James Baldwin. How the Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, Author and Preacher, Spends Her Sundays 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z From the opening frame, Myers summons James Baldwin’s writing; later, Kenneth B. Clark’s book “The Negro Protest,” featuring interviews with Baldwin, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., makes an appearance in ironic circumstances. Review: Skinner Myers' surreal 'The Sleeping Negro' is an angry wakeup call for all 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Other Black American artists, including James Baldwin and Richard Wright, had similar experiences, with the result that France is particularly sensitive to American criticism that its avowedly colorblind social model masks widespread discrimination. Josephine Baker Becomes First Black Woman Inducted Into France’s Tomb of Heroes 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Baker was among several prominent Black Americans, especially artists and writers, who found refuge from American racism in France after the two World Wars, including the famed writer and intellectual James Baldwin. French honor for Josephine Baker stirs conflict over racism 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z As both James Baldwin and Bob Dylan observed, the preacher defended the Jim Crow system as much as the sheriff. Opinion | My skin color should not prevent me from attending the trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s accused killers 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z James Baldwin once explained that he loved America "more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." American democracy is on the treadmill of doom: How do we get off? 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Watson offered the words of the Black author and activist James Baldwin: “You’ve always told me it takes time,” Mr. Baldwin said in the 1989 documentary “The Price of a Ticket.” Can Progress on Diversity Be Union-Made? 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z Famously described by author James Baldwin as “Negro removal,” urban renewal programs swept U.S. cities and towns during the 1950s and ’60s. A university town explores reparations for a Black community uprooted by urban renewal 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z In 2019, King won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for her performance in "If Beale Street Could Talk", a film adaptation of a James Baldwin novel. 'No place like home': Regina King cements fame in Hollywood 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z In his "Talk to Teachers," James Baldwin went a step further, adding a sense of urgency and a call for resistance to this notion of hope. How higher education can win the war against neoliberalism and white supremacy 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z As James Baldwin stated, “Guilt is a very peculiar emotion. As long as you are guilty about something, no matter what it is, you are not compelled to change it.” Civility won’t save our souls 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z During my more radical youth, I obsessively reread the letter James Baldwin wrote to his nephew in “The Fire Next Time,” which I first read in high school. The Myth of Asian American Identity 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Like James Baldwin, Richard Wright and Josephine Baker before him, Van Peebles then skipped off to France, where the climate was more welcoming for Black artists. Opinion | Melvin Van Peebles wrote the do-it-yourself playbook for Black filmmakers 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z As James Baldwin explained, "I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." Trump "revelations" are an indictment of America's political class: They knew, and did nothing 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Along with other Black American artists — including the writers Richard Wright and James Baldwin — Ms. Baker said she found in France a freedom that she felt denied in the United States. Josephine Baker to Be Honored With a Panthéon Burial 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z Before filming began in Illinois and Georgia, Smollett, a self-described “research junkie,” read works by Black writers from the period, including poet Gwendolyn Brooks, playwright Lorraine Hansberry and essayist James Baldwin. Jurnee Smollett wears 'Leti's armor' into 'Lovecraft Country' 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z The video begins with a timer counting down the seconds until James Baldwin appears before us, seated in a living room in the Manhattan apartment building he purchased in 1965. When James Baldwin Was a ‘Has-Been’ 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z James Baldwin was right in connecting the long durée of economic and racial injustice to the legitimating power of ideas and education. Fighting back against the age of manufactured ignorance: Resistance is still possible 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z James Baldwin, the famed African-American writer, dubbed “urban renewal” takings “Negro removal,” because of this tendency. Government’s power to seize private property must be reined in 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z As James Baldwin well knew, our freedoms are interrelated — and otherwise imperiled. Opinion | Juneteenth Is a National Holiday Now. Can It Still Be Black? 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Once, when Mustaf missed an assignment, Strickland assigned him James Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time” as a makeup lesson. At hoops power DeMatha, a coaching change stirs a painful debate about race 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Keith Ellison, the Minnesota attorney general who oversaw the prosecution of Mr. Chauvin, quoted James Baldwin in a statement on Tuesday that pointed to America’s never-ending cycle of police abuses and protest. ‘On the Ashes of Tragedy’: Mixed Emotions on Anniversary of George Floyd’s Death 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z “The horror is that America changes all the time,” James Baldwin said, “without ever changing at all.” Opinion | It is painful to remember. We have to remember. 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z “As James Baldwin once wrote: ‘When we cannot tell the truth about our past, we become trapped in it,’” Lumumba said. ‘Sins of our past’: Officials apologize for campus shooting 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z Free went on to quote the late writer James Baldwin that it was “despicable” to be indifferent to other people’s pain. Chauvin verdict weighs heavily on Oscars broadcast 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z He added, “James Baldwin once said the most despicable thing a people can be is indifferent to other people’s pain. I ask that you not be indifferent. Please, don’t be indifferent to our pain.” 'Two Distant Strangers' Oscar winner highlights toll of police violence in America 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z James was more succinct, quoting the author James Baldwin when he tweeted: “It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” Sports figures react to Derek Chauvin's murder conviction with mix of joy and wariness 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z The title of the book, "This Is the Fire," is inspired by one of Lemon's heroes, the late great writer James Baldwin, who like Lemon spoke truthfully and often poetically about race in America. CNN's Don Lemon on why Trump was good for America: "Now we see them for what they are" 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Why am I being asked questions that James Baldwin answered in the 1960s, that Toni Morrison answered in the 80s? White people, black authors are not your medicine | Yaa Gyasi 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z Town Attorney James Baldwin declined comment on the lawsuit. Police sued over shooting death of woman by ex-husband 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z The letters investigate whether it is possible to successfully write across race, cases of racial impostors and interlopers, the nature of whiteness and much more, with touchstones including Claudia Rankine and James Baldwin. Review: From William Styron to 'American Dirt': When is it appropriate to culturally appropriate? 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z Not for nothing did Black American writers and artists — including Richard Wright, Josephine Baker and James Baldwin — find in France a freedom that they felt denied in the United States. African-American Sacrifice in the Killing Fields of France 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z You talk about one of your heroes, James Baldwin. CNN's Don Lemon on why Trump was good for America: "Now we see them for what they are" 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z When asked if Blacks suffered the most from racial injustice, James Baldwin replied, “No, we are only the ones who are dying fastest.” Perspective | Prisons are getting Whiter. That’s one way mass incarceration might end. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z As James Baldwin observed 35 years before, there was a price to the ticket. He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive? 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Inspired by James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript for "Remember This House" from the 1970s, the film recounts the experience of several civil rights leaders such as Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. 5 documentaries to stream during Black History Month 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z “Men of Change” explores American history through the contributions of figures like James Baldwin, W.E.B. Honor and Learn This Black History Month 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z Although Aaron wasn’t vocal on the larger civil rights scene, he became interested in the writings of James Baldwin, decrying patience in the face of racism. Hank Aaron, Home Run King Who Defied Racism, Dies at 86 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z I considered a quote from James Baldwin, a song lyric from Sam Cooke … but at the end of the day I decided to honor the anger. Granderson: NFL teams passing over qualified Black head-coaching candidates is disgraceful 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z A multiracial audience packed the Ark Lodge Cinemas to watch the James Baldwin documentary. Reparations can take many forms. Let’s start by being honest about what we’ve wrought 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z “I did a lot of portraits of black artists and musicians in my spare time,” said Barboza who photographed Michael Jackson at 21, as well as James Baldwin and Gordon Parks. The Kamoinge legacy: the black photographers who changed the game 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z “I love America more than any other country in the world,” James Baldwin wrote in “Notes of a Native Son,” “and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” The Challenge of Black Patriotism 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Some, like Harmony Holiday’s poignant film-montage remembrance of the great James Baldwin, will tear at your heart. Review: Extreme alienation reigns in the Hammer Museum's (unopened) biennial 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z One mural portrayed Black civil rights icons such as Harriet Tubman, Marsha P. Johnson and James Baldwin, while another showed a Black woman posing as Rosie the Riveter. Black Lives Matters murals defaced in Riverside 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z “Never before in the entire history of the American theater,” writer James Baldwin would say, “had so much of the truth of Black people’s lives been seen on the stage.” As a new docuseries shows, there's no Stonewall without Black queer activists 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin wrote of white supremacy as part of their searching critiques of American society. ‘White Supremacy’ Once Meant David Duke and the Klan. Now It Refers to Much More. 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z He wrote it because, while gathering notes on Turner, he was challenged over dinner by none other than James Baldwin to write from inside Turner’s head, as a first-person narrative. ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Is Good TV. But Mix Art and Slavery at Your Peril. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z I especially noticed your allusion to James Baldwin’s “price of the ticket” as a continued marker and injurious consequence of Black mobility. Claudia Rankine on Black Lives Matter, Naomi Osaka and justice for all 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z She decided to run after mulling the words of the Black author James Baldwin, who had said, “The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.” In her first race, Kamala Harris learned how to become a political brawler 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Do what James Baldwin said to do: Earn your death. Tim Wise on Trump, RBG and why we must fight to save multiracial democracy 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Rapper Common posted a quote from activist James Baldwin. Celebs react to grand jury indicting 1 police officer involved in Breonna Taylor shooting 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z James Baldwin was right: For whatever reason, a novel can be a private act in a way that a Showtime television event — with its ceaseless promotions, subscriber pushes and social-media discourse — can never be. ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Is Good TV. But Mix Art and Slavery at Your Peril. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z “He assigned us Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Maya Angelou. And when someone said, ‘Why are you giving us all Black writers?’ he said, ‘I’m giving you all American writers.’ A cartoonist saw his industry 'implode.' So he turned to TV to tell his story 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z James Baldwin famously asked how much time America wants for our progress. Opinion | Welcome to the new civil rights era 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z “Four years was not enough, clearly. As James Baldwin said, ‘How much time do you need?’” she says. After her epic debut novel on slavery's descendants, Yaa Gyasi wrote even closer to home 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z An online version of this exhibit at the California African American Museum includes painting, photography, sculpture and other art inspired by boxer Muhammad Ali, author James Baldwin and rapper Kendrick Lamar. 16 picks for weekend culture: Benjamin Millepied film, #Ham4Change returns 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z Regarding the July 19 Book World review “James Baldwin spoke eloquently to his era. Does he also speak to ours?” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A full 1,000 words, but ‘Black Lives Matter’ not among them 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z James Baldwin's journey to becoming a professional racing driver took off in a very unusual place. From the world's fastest gamer to real life racer 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z But in May 1963 he hosted a group of black artists and intellectuals, including James Baldwin, and received a humbling lesson in how the administration needed to more ambitious on civil rights. 'I loved John Lewis': how he and Robert Kennedy forged an iron bond 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin Baldwin’s story describes two estranged brothers reconnecting in 1950s Harlem. Short and sweet: the best stories to read right now 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z James Baldwin asked, “How much time do you want for your progress?” Opinion | We don’t need statues to know history 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z “James Baldwin — Take This Hammer” The streaming platform All Arts presents this 1964 documentary about the acclaimed African American author and activist. A free concert with La Santa Cecilia's La Marisoul: Your must-watch of the day 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z In rural areas, where broadband internet is sparse, the little free libraries may be the only place to find a James Baldwin novel. Albuquerque to encourage ‘Little Free Libraries’ in city 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z James Baldwin wrote: “It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.” Opinion | ‘Let Freedom Ring’ From Georgia 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z The voices collected here elaborate and extend the mantras, such as Langston Hughes versifying his insistence that America live up to its myth, and James Baldwin defining protest as a duty. George Floyd died right before the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. This photo essay spans the current protests — but the quotes paired with them span 100 years. 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z James Baldwin, the great writer and intellectual, once provided his own lyrical twist to a concept that many philosophers have expressed. Perspective | In the fight for equality, the NBA can be a symbol and an inspiration — not a distraction 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z On May 24, 1963, immediately following a meeting on civil rights issues with Attorney General Robert Kennedy, James Baldwin sat for a now-iconic interview with the psychologist Kenneth Clark. We Need to Stop Measuring Black Lives by Their Whiteness 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z “You can’t fix what you haven’t faced,” Mr. Johnson said, defending the process and paraphrasing the writer and activist James Baldwin. Black Tulsans, With a Defiant Juneteenth Celebration, Send a Message to Trump 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Drew’s anger reminded me of James Baldwin nearly 60 years ago. Review: @museummammy knows a thing or two about art. Listen up 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z The phenomenon runs the gamut from photography and children’s books to novels and memoirs and the “backlist” opus of legends such as James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. Perspective | For publishers, books on race and racism have been a surprising success 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Consider, for instance, James Baldwin’s writing about the famous 1967 cop film, In The Heat of the Night. How to watch police shows in the age of Black Lives Matter | Elias Rodriques 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z "Like James Baldwin, I want you to tell me, how long should I risk my life and my dignity for an ideal that I've never seen?" Scientists condemn racism in #StrikeforBlackLives action worldwide this week 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Her father encouraged her to read James Baldwin and Malcolm X from a young age. Teens have been gassed and hit with rubber bullets at protests. They keep coming back. 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z This inequity is something that the writer and activist James Baldwin so eloquently addressed in "The Fire Next Time," which he published at a critical moment for the civil rights movement in 1963. "Ring down the curtain": What protests mean for a nation already in crisis 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z I want to go back to the Douglass Truth library, sit on the floor and read again James Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time.” I am breathing, but I’m not OK 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z As James Baldwin wrote, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Opinion | Racism is killing black people. It’s sickening them, too. 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z “To borrow James Baldwin’s phrase that I love, I thought of myself as a ‘transatlantic commuter.’ Europeans emerging from coronavirus lockdowns find a conspicuous absence of Americans 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z The closest amalgam I can think of to him was James Baldwin and, before him, perhaps Edward Carpenter. Larry Kramer: a titan of gay rights and literature whose prophecies live on 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z This is why James Baldwin also spoke of the "we" — the "relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks" — working together to change minds. "Ring down the curtain": What protests mean for a nation already in crisis 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Pews and amps and a huge tapestry of James Baldwin as the altar. 25 top theater minds dream the future: What will the post-pandemic stage look like? 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z In one touching scene, Elliot talks with his daughter after giving her a copy of James Baldwin’s essay collection, The Price of the Ticket,” of his works on race and identity. Netflix drama ‘The Eddy’ explores jazz via multiracial Paris 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z The book covers subjects from the Trojan War to James Baldwin to, perhaps most centrally, the often unpunished violence that police commit against African-Americans. Pulitzer Prize: 2020 Winners List 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z It’s where James Baldwin wrote “Giovanni’s Room” and Thornton Wilder set down “Our Town.” They came to make art in isolation; the pandemic forced them to stay 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z On a recent visit, one crate held a mint 1960s edition of James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room,” another a novelization of the film “Alien.” Their beautifully curated vintage-book pop-ups were thriving. Along came coronavirus. 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z As James Baldwin said, "Once you acknowledge the truth, now you're on the hook." Tim Wise on Trump, the coronavirus and the pandemic of white privilege 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Albert Murray criticized James Baldwin in the wake of the U.S. civil rights movement. Review | What if the problem of racism has no solution? 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z As James Baldwin observed, “there is … no distance between Birmingham and Los Angeles.” Review: How L.A.’s ’60s movements fought for justice — and sometimes even achieved it 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Other media reports identified the players as Verdugo and James Baldwin. Boston’s Sale, Verdugo already behind schedule for opener 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Author James Baldwin, his likeness painted and mounted on a wall, peered down at the men gathered around the coffee table. Nipsey Hussle was a bookworm. Now black men are finding inspiration in what he read 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z Let’s start with “trigger warnings” given to students in literature classes to protect them from books they may find unpleasant, such as those written by Mark Twain and James Baldwin who occasionally used the n-word. Opinion | Why students readily accept Big Brother on campus 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z She won an supporting actress Oscar earlier this year for the James Baldwin drama “If Beale Street Could Talk.” Regina King has no regrets 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Torn was a political activist who joined James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte and other cultural and civil rights leaders for a 1963 meeting with then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy about the nation's treatment of blacks. Rip Torn's cause of death revealed 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z James Baldwin, discussing the possibility of the first black president in The Fire Next Time, asked: “What I am really curious about is just what kind of country he will be president of.” Many Americans are ready for a black woman president. Just not Kamala Harris | Derecka Purnell 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The last book that made me cry Any book by James Baldwin. Elif Shafak: ‘No one does sisterhood and resilience like Audre Lorde' 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Maybe you’ve heard this one from the visionary novelist James Baldwin: “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” A 12-step program to opioid justice 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Indeed, while writing “Dickinson,” Smith stuck a quote from James Baldwin over her desk: “History is not past, it is present.” Stuffy? Hardly. How 'Dickinson' and others blew up the period piece 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z James Baldwin told police she fell while hanging Christmas ornaments and he crashed into a creek during the drive to the hospital. SC officer convicted in wife’s killing gets life sentence 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z In February 1969, when James Baldwin wrote a scalding essay in The Times about the difficulties faced by black artists, it was Gaines’ novel he cited in making a point about film and television. Ernest J. Gaines, Novelist of ‘Miss Jane Pittman,’ Dies at 86 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z As James Baldwin once observed, “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” Is Inequality Inevitable? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z “I am writing to ask whether there would be any possibility of a place at Yaddo, sometime this winter, for James Baldwin, a very gifted young writer of my acquaintance.” The Ghosts of Yaddo Act Up 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z I think that the only way out is through, which is why I used James Baldwin as an epigraph. Trolls have taken over our democracy. Silicon Valley helped 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z James Baldwin was an officer with the York and Columbia police departments. SC officer convicted in wife’s killing gets life sentence 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z In a 1963 interview, the writer James Baldwin declared that urban renewal “means Negro removal.” Opinion | Clarence Thomas Is Not a ‘Sellout’ 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z He then met the historical moment by quoting James Baldwin. Inspiring speeches on diversity, equal pay rule Emmy night 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z After a few more excited “Oh, my Gods!,” the first-time Emmy nominee went on to reference James Baldwin, the celebrated African American activist and writer. Read Billy Porter's triumphant Emmys speech that got a standing ovation 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z “She carried her history with her,” Jackson tells the class, referencing a James Baldwin quote. They worry about anger, fear, guilt. Some feel ill-equipped. Educators confront teaching about slavery. 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Her 1960 literary debut, “The Beat of Life,” was a first-person, present-tense account of a timid young woman’s unexpected pregnancy, and it drew praise from critics and authors such as James Baldwin. Barbara Probst Solomon, writer who chronicled Franco’s rule in Spain, dies at 90 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Readers may hear echoes of James Baldwin in the relentlessness of her inquiry, and in the sinewy cadences of her sentences. Review: Sarah M. Broom shows her New Orleans in 'The Yellow House' 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z She was up there with Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Philip Roth, James Baldwin – writers who were challenging the inflection and the timbre of the American dream. 'Rest, Toni Morrison. You were magnificent': leading writers on the great American author 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z “That handsome and perceptive lady,” James Baldwin called her. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dead at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z As James Baldwin said in 1963, “The only people in the country at the moment who believe either in Christianity or in the country are the most despised minority in it.” Opinion | Ignoring Trump’s racism betrays our country’s victims 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The prisons ombudsman said one, 81-year-old James Baldwin, was also left lying naked on the floor of his cell twice shortly before he died. Prison staff restrained 'frail' cancer patients 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z As much as Smith seems to thrive in conflict, he prefers movies with happy endings and has spent decades trying to be more like James Baldwin, the iconic writer and civil rights activist. DeMaurice Smith is ready to battle the NFL again. Not everyone wants to join him. 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z During the 1960s, Mr. Torn combined acting with political activism and joined writer James Baldwin and entertainer Harry Belafonte in a 1963 meeting with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to discuss civil rights. Rip Torn, volatile actor who gained comic renown on ‘The Larry Sanders Show,’ dies at 88 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Last year, Jones was taken to task by Carlson for an op-ed titled: "Was James Baldwin right when he called white Americans moral monsters?" Anti-Trump professor accuses GOP of trying to ‘pimp God’ 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Unless, as James Baldwin once said, your disagreement is rooted in my oppression, your denial of my humanity, my right to exist. Expecting me to explain racism is exploitative – that’s not my job | Afua Hirsch 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The inimitable James Baldwin speaks to the necessity for dramatic action which both burdens hope and inspires it. Against the dictatorship of ignorance in the age of Trump, Part 2: We can still fight back 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z “Where is James Baldwin?” you might find yourself screaming into your smartphone. Where Are the Statues of L.G.B.T.Q. Pioneers? Here Are 11 Worthy New Yorkers 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z James Baldwin was certainly right in issuing the stern warning in “No Name in the Street” that “Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” Against the dictatorship of ignorance in the age of Donald Trump: Part 1 of 2 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z It was the New York home of the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin from the mid-1960s on. A Gay Theater and James Baldwin’s N.Y. Apartment May Get Landmark Protection 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Or James Baldwin, that great recovering Christian, who once wrote, “I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being.” If God Is Dead, Your Time Is Everything 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z It’s a reimagining of a meeting between James Baldwin and Richard Wright. ‘I don’t want to write a slave’: A Q&A with playwrights Psalmayene 24 and Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z In 1949, up-and-coming writer James Baldwin, a former protege of Wright's, wrote a controversial essay critiquing the story for perpetuating the very stereotypes it sought to destroy. ‘Native Son’ screenwriter Suzan-Lori Parks on adapting Richard Wright's novel for 2019 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z And everyone from James Baldwin to Elizabeth Bishop have these children’s books, you know. Peter Balakian Reads Theodore Roethke 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Part of Wilson’s mission in his magisterial 10-play cycle chronicling the African American experience in the 20th century was to fulfill James Baldwin’s call for a “profound articulation of the black tradition.” Review: ‘Lackawanna Blues’ is potent as live memoir, an actor’s tribute to the woman who rescued him 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Because, remember, the white working class, and again this goes back to the great James Baldwin, actually believe in the American Dream. Chris Hedges: Democrats may well lose to Trump again, and Bernie Sanders is "naive" 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z It’s inspired by the James Baldwin quote: “I have been described by you for hundreds of years and now I can describe you, that’s part of the panic.” Critical canvas: behind the year's most political art show 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z There is no shortage of artists from Martin Buber and George Orwell to James Baldwin, who warned us that this dystopian era was fast approaching. Michael Cohen's testimony: A dark spectacle, and a severe indictment of America's political culture 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Regina King won the prize for supporting actress for her role in the James Baldwin adaptation “If Beale Street Could Talk.” Oscars 2019: 'Green Book's' best picture win caps off an unpredictable awards season 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z “To be standing here representing one of the greatest artist of our time, James Baldwin, is a little surreal,” said King. Green Book wins best picture at Oscars 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z “To be standing here, representing one of the greatest artists of our time, James Baldwin, it’s a little surreal,” an emotional King said. Regina King wins Oscar for ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z What would James Baldwin say if he were around to see the movie, and King’s win? Oscars press room reactions: Regina King on the one word James Baldwin would have said after her win 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z But as James Baldwin would say, "We got to raise our babies." Despair, justice and Black History Month: Hope is possible 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Today James Baldwin is most frequently encountered as a “trailblazer of the civil rights movement”; a magnificent prophet who declared that “ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have”. Giovanni’s Room shows the fearful side of dauntless James Baldwin 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z The inimitable James Baldwin captures the depth which both burdens hope and inspires it. How higher education has been weaponized in the age of Trump — and how it can be redeemed 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Exploring the country’s violent bigotry, James Baldwin once noted, is to glimpse the shame, denial and conflicted soul of white America. ‘Always in Season’ explores an America stained by lynchings and a legacy of racism 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z They’re on view as part of a group exhibition at the David Zwirner gallery in New York, entitled God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin. 'An extraordinary American story' - behind an eye-opening James Baldwin exhibition 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z “If Beale Street Could Talk,” meanwhile, was a more traditional adaptation — it’s based on the 1974 novel of the same name by James Baldwin. 2019 Oscar nominations: Complete list of nominees; ‘Roma’ and ‘The Favourite’ lead with 10 each; ‘A Star Is Born’ earns eight 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z But there was one person capable of defeating James Baldwin – and that was James Baldwin. Giovanni’s Room shows the fearful side of dauntless James Baldwin 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Writers like James Baldwin and Irving Howe would drop by the office, and at Greenwich Village parties he met prominent intellectuals like Lionel Trilling and the Partisan Review editors Philip Rahv and William Phillips. Nathan Glazer, Urban Sociologist and Outspoken Intellectual, Dies at 95 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z |
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