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James Baldwin Insisted We Tell the Truth About This Country. The Truth Is, We’ve Been Here Before

In each generation we have to experience the haunting ritual of a Black family grieving in public over the loss of a loved one at the hands of the police.

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Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
2020
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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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The Fire This Time—The Legacy of James Baldwin

His work fell foul of civil-rights-era binary racial and sexual politics but, as a new film shows, now Baldwin’s ideas are used to explain everything from Trump to Black Lives Matter

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Lanre Bakare
2017
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Civil Rights | James Baldwin Interview | Mavis on Four

Mavis Nicholson speaks exclusively to American Civil rights activist and renown Playwright novelist, essayist, poet, and social critic James Baldwin. First shown: 02/12/1987

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James Baldwin
2014
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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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Dan Sinykin
2017
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James Baldwin 1924–1987

The American Civil Rights Movement had many eloquent spokesmen, but few were better known than James Baldwin.

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I Am Not Your Negro

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

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2016
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“James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket”: Documentary 25th Anniversary Special Screening

A special 25th Anniversary screening and discussion of the documentary James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (87 minutes) by filmmaker Karen Thorsen.

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James Baldwin
2014
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Blues for Mister Charlie

In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence—which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till—James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race.

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James Baldwin
1995
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If Beale Street Could Talk

Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned.

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James Baldwin
2006
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