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Anti-Racism Work Requires Rest—Here’s How 4 Social Justice Activists Practice Self Care

By Kayla Hui — 2021

Anti-racism work is often arduous and taxing, which is why in order to sustain the work, it’s important for activists to practice effective self care.

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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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Civil Rights 1963 - James Baldwin and Marlon Brando

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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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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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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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What ‘The Lie’ Meant to James Baldwin | Morning Joe | MSNBC

Professor and author Eddie Glaude Jr. returns to Morning Joe for more discussion of his new book ‘Begin Again,’ about the life and legacy of James Baldwin. Aired on 06/30/2020.

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1984 James Baldwin Interview • Hampshire College Archives and Special Collections

James Baldwin was the Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature from 1983 to 1986. He was based at Hampshire College during this time. In May of 1984, Baldwin took part in an episode of Five College Journal, a locally produced, on-campus news program at Hampshire.

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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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