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Serena Williams: How Black Women Can Close the Pay Gap

By Serena Williams — 2017

Black women are 37 cents behind men in the pay gap—in other words, for every dollar a man makes, black women make 63 cents.

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Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

Begin Again is one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America’s ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. Just as in Baldwin’s “after times,” argues Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

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Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
2020
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Civil Rights 1963 - James Baldwin and Marlon Brando

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James Baldwin
2014
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I Am Not Your Negro

In his final years, Baldwin envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King.

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James Baldwin, Raoul Peck
2017
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Notes of a Native Son

In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin’s essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written.

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James Baldwin
2012
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

Envisioned as a response to The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin’s groundbreaking 1963 essay collection, these contemporary writers reflect on the past, present, and future of race in America.

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Jesmyn Ward
2017
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What James Baldwin’s Work Means for a Nation Having a Reckoning on Race | The 11Th Hour | MSNBC

Eddie Glaude, Jr. joins to discuss his new biography on the late, great American writer James Baldwin and the lessons his thoughts on race still hold for America in the age of Trump. Aired on 7/06/2020.

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James Baldwin
2020
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James Baldwin: Interview (Florida Forum, Miami, 1963)

Author James Baldwin taped a candid and fascinating studio interview at WCKT-Miami in 1963. Featured in this edition of the long running program, “Florida Forum”: questions by an in-studio audience and a panel of local journalists.

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James Baldwin
2011
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James Baldwin - Pin Drop Speech

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James Baldwin
2017
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I Am Not Your Negro | James Baldwin on the Dick Cavett Show | Netflix

A segment from James Baldwin's brilliant response to a philosophy professor on a 1968 episode of The Dick Cavett Show from Raoul Peck's must-see documentary I Am Not Your Negro.

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James Baldwin
2020
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Dark Days

Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.

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James Baldwin
2018
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