On Coming to Terms

What form should a “post #BlackLivesMatter” movement take?

BlackLivesMatter” world, it won’t be one where the current constellation of movement organizations simply disappear or become ineffective in their attempts to bring Black people closer to liberation....

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On Coming to Terms

James Baldwin and the Fire This Time

Good trouble and the courage to hope

History, despite its wrenching pain,  Cannot be unlived, but if faced With courage, need not be lived again.  Maya Angelou, “On the Pulse of Morning” (1993) As a guide, as a seer, as a prophet – James Baldwin is a writer we need. As Baldwin said about Beauford Delaney, the Black painter who rose to prominence in the ...
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James Baldwin and the Fire This Time