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Black Wall Street Today: The Community Was Not Destroyed

By Tanya A. Christian — 2021

White masses, laced with anger and jealousy, armed with white supremacy, propaganda, and the powers afforded to them by the Jim Crow South, did carry out one of the worse incidents of racial violence in U.S. history. But what they could not snatch in the evening hours of May 31 into June 1 was the tenacity, the resilience, instilled in the people of Greenwood.

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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.

Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

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Grandma Says: Wake Up, World! The Wisdom, Wit, Advice, and Stories of “Grandma Aggie”

Transcribed from an interview with one of the most important voices of the First Nation and of the world, Grandma Aggie’s stories and advice mesmerize and captivate while providing a blueprint for how inhabitants of the earth can live together in harmony and peace.

Agnes Baker Pilgrim

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James Baldwin on the Black Experience in America

From a 1960 Canadian television interview, broadcaster Nathan Cohen talks to author James Baldwin about race relations and the black experience in the United States.

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Notes of a Native Son: The World According to James Baldwin - Christina Greer

James Baldwin was an American novelist and social critic whose essays in “Notes of a Native Son” explored race, sex and class distinctions. In the 1960s, the FBI amassed almost 2,000 documents in an investigation into one of America’s most celebrated minds.

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James Baldwin Discusses Racism | The Dick Cavett Show

James Baldwin has an open discussion of racial prejudice, civil rights activism and policing.

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James Baldwin - Pin Drop Speech

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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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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.

James Baldwin, Raoul Peck

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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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The Fire Next Time

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. "Basically the finest essay I’ve ever read. . . .

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