March 2011
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The American Dream and the American Negro
By JAMES BALDWIN March 7, 1965
I find myself, not for the first time, in the position of a kind of Jeremiah. It would seem to me that the question before the house is a proposition horribly loaded, that one’s response to that question depends on where you find yourself in the world, what your sense of reality is. That is, it depends on assumptions we hold so deeply as to be scarcely...
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February 2011
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“When Tish cries for Fonny and longs for his freedom, she is the Baldwin voice...”
– David Leeming
James Baldwin A Biography by David Leeming
p. 325 on James Baldwin & If Beale Street Could Talk
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Tell Me How Long James Baldwin's Been Gone →
by Alex Carnevale
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One-man play recounts Baldwin’s life →
On Feb. 18 in the Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater, Staged Dreams presented “James Baldwin – Down from the Mountaintop” an original solo play written and performed by Calvin Levels.
The play takes the audience through the life of James Baldwin, who was a novelist, playwright and human rights activist.
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Notes of a Native American: Chronicle of a... →
by Sol Stein The Literary Life July/August 2004 7.01.04
Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin’s best-known book, was published in 1955 by Beacon Press. Baldwin’s editor then was Sol Stein, whom he’d known since high school. This essay is an excerpt from Stein’s Introduction to Native Sons by Baldwin and Stein, which will be published by One World, an imprint of Random House, next month. The...
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Museum acquires rare Baldwin photographs →
By Jacqueline Trescott
A collection of photographs of James Baldwin, one of the leading literary figures of the 20th Century, has been acquired by the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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