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  Watch the Famous James Baldwin-William F. Buckley Debate in Full, With Restored Audio (1965)

  

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  When James Baldwin took the stage to debate William F. Buckley at Cambridge in 1965, it was to have “a debate we shouldn’t need,” writes Gabrielle Bellot at Literary Hub, and yet it’s one that is still “as important as ever.” The proposition before the two men—famed prophetic novelist of the black experience in America […]

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  Listen to James Baldwin’s Record Collection in a 478-track, 32-Hour Spotify Playlist

  

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  Photo via Wikimedia Commons Each writer’s process is a personal relationship between them and the page—and...

  Photo via Wikimedia Commons Each writer’s process is a personal relationship between them and the page—and the desk, room, chair, pens or pencils, typewriter or laptop, turntable, CD player, streaming audio… you get the idea. The kind of music suitable for listening to while writing (I, for one, cannot write to music with lyrics) varies […] Listen to James Baldwin’s Record Collection in a...

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  Nina Simone Writes an Admiring Letter to Langston Hughes: “Brother, You’ve Got a Fan Now!” (1966)

  

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  Nina Simone’s creative and political community meant everything to her, and the many losses she suffered...

  Nina Simone’s creative and political community meant everything to her, and the many losses she suffered in the 60s sent her deeper into the depression of the last decades of her life. “Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, and Lorraine Hansberry [were] prominent,” writes Malik Gaines at LitHub, “among… socially engaged writers and dramatists” whom she considered […] Nina Simone Writes an Admiring Letter to Langston...

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  James Baldwin Talks About Racism in America & Civil Rights Activism on The Dick Cavett Show (1969)

  

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  There are many reasons, some quite literal, that it can be painful to talk about racism...

  There are many reasons, some quite literal, that it can be painful to talk about racism in the U.S. For one thing, it often seems that writers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, or James Baldwin, have already confronted questions of racial violence without hedging or equivocation. Yet each time […] James Baldwin Talks About Racism in America &...

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