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

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James Baldwin
2014
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