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The Year I Gave Up White Comfort: An Ode to My White “Friends” on Being Better to Black Womxn

By Rachel Ricketts — 2019

This past year I not only stood unapologetically in the full and complete truth of my identity but also voiced that truth, my truth, aloud to all those closest to me. Including a lot of White people. People who think we’re quite close when in reality they neither see nor support me as my whole, loud and proud Black female-identifying self.

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The Apocalyptic Baldwin

I Am Not Your Negro shows how James Baldwin became disillusioned about the possibility of any peaceful resolution to racism, but underplays the force of his internationalist and anti-capitalist perspective.

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Reading James Baldwin Can Help Heal the Wounds of Racial Division

Baldwin’s words explore what hatred can do not only to society at large but to the individual who bears it.

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The History that James Baldwin Wanted America to See

As both James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, Jr., insisted, America is an identity that white people will protect at any cost, and the country’s history—its founding documents, its national heroes—is the supporting argument that underpins that identity.

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