Authors Eddie Glaude (Begin Again) and Jon Meacham (His Truth Is Marching On) talked about the legacies of author James Baldwin and civil rights leader and former Representative John Lewis (D-GA).
861 viewsAnna Malaika Tubbs explored the impact that the mothers of James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X had on their sons.
427 viewsNicholas Buccola, chair in political science at Linfield College, recalled the February 18, 1965, televised debate between James Baldwin and William F.
1,608 viewsAuthor and Princeton University professor Eddie Glaude applied James Baldwin's writings on politics and race to navigate the current conversation on race in America.
466 viewsEddie Glaude, chair of the African American Studies program at Princeton University, talked about race and politics in America as well as the relevance of the late author James Baldwin in the age of Black Lives Matter. ... , Democracy in Black, and Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, published in summer 2020.
4,048 viewsAuthor and Princeton University Professor Eddie Glaude applied James Baldwin's writings on politics and race to navigate the current conversation on race in America.
1,457 viewsActress Ebony Obsidian, Princeton University Professor Imani Perry, and novelist Jacqueline Woodson talked about the importance of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk.
From the 2018 Gaithersburg Book Festival, Joseph Esposito detailed the White House dinner on April 1962 with 49 Nobel Prize winners, including Robert Oppenheimer, James Baldwin, Mary Welsh Hemingway, John Glenn and others.
678 viewsKennedy and author and activist James Baldwin on May 24, 1963, held in the hopes of opening up a discussion on civil rights and race relations.
2,091 viewsPanelists talked about the life and work of author James Baldwin.
894 viewsJules Farber talked about his book, James Baldwin: Escape from America, Exile in Provence, on James Baldwin's life and writing career as an expat in France from 1970 until his death in 1987. He was joined in conversation by James Baldwin's sister-in-law, Carol Weinstein; his nephew, Daniel Baldwin*; author Nicholas Delbanco; and musician George Wein.
Panelists included Cheryl Wall, English professor, Rutgers University; Rich Blint, contributing editor, The James Baldwin Review; Farah Jasmine Griffin, English and Comparative Literature professor, Columbia University; and Yvette Christianse, English and Africana Studies professor, Barnard College.
1,018 viewsPanelists talked about contemporary moral and political questions, as well as James Baldwin's statement that, "Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety." "Achieving our Country: James Baldwin* and American Morality" was a panel at the 2014 Harlem Book Fair from the Langston Hughes Auditorium in the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
2,444 viewsAuthor bell hooks discussed the work and impact of James Baldwin at a symposium celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain. During her presentation, Ms. hooks talked about reading Baldwin when she was a young girl and commented on the role his work played in transforming education in America during the 1960s.
Taylor Baldwin Kiland is the co-author, with photographer Jamie Howren, of Open Doors: Vietnam POWs Thirty Years Later, published by Potomac Books. ... The event sponsored by the Library of Congress Professional Association Veterans Forum was held in the 6th floor dining room of the James Madison building.
592 viewsVan Vechten, of Langston Hughes, publisher Alfred Knopf, James Baldwin and other Harlem alumni such as Zora Neale Hurston and Arna Bontemps.
1,651 viewsLive coverage from the 10th annual Harlem Book Fair included: Schedule of Coverage: 11:15 am - 12:30 pm ET - 40 Years of African American Publishing panel 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm ET - James Baldwin's Literary Legacy panel 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm ET - Interview with Beverly Manley 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm ET - State of Civil Rights panel 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm ET - Bicentennial of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the U.S. panel 6:15 pm - 7:15 pm ET - Mississippi Freedom Riders panel
1,511 viewsA panel discussion was held to recognize James Baldwin (1924-1987) and his place within the American literary canon. ... Moderator Herb Boyd is the author of Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin (Atria, January 8, 2008). Quincy Troupe, the editor of James Baldwin: The Legacy (Touchstone Books, March 1989), conducted the last significant interview with James Baldwin. ... Cora Daniels, author of Ghettonation: A Journey into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless (Doubleday, 2007), talked about James Baldwin's impact on the Hip-Hop generation. "James Baldwin: Perspectives and Literary Legacy" was a program of the 10th annual Harlem Book F
1,138 viewsHe described African American identity and politics forty-five years after James Baldwin's publication of The Fire Next Time.
353 viewsThe author reflected on his friendship with the late author James Baldwin, and described their collaboration on the book, Notes of a Native Son. Harvard University African American Studies Chair Henry Louis Gates also spoke at the event that marked the 80th anniversary of James Baldwin's birth. ... Baldwin attended together in the Bronx.
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