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Politics

Nonviolence, Black Power, and “the Citizens of Pompeii”: James Baldwin’s 1968

The radicalization of an unparalleled figure in American literature and African American cultural politics

October 4, 2022 • by Ed Pavlić

On the third Sunday after the march, September 15, 1963, six Black children were killed in three separate incidents—one of which was the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church—in Birmingham. That day marked the end of Baldwin’s brief career as a literary celebrity and the beginning of his radicalization, ...

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Manually Bending the Arc of Time Towards Justice

January 27, 2018 • by Kristopher Burrell

Speech by Dr. Kristopher Burrell, January 16, 2017, St. Paul’s Church -- National Historic Site, Mount Vernon, NY Good afternoon, everyone. It is my pleasure to be here at St. Paul’s Church on this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Dr. King would have turned 88 years of age yesterday. I would ...

Fame, Truth, and Justice

A Review of Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro

May 17, 2017 • by Simone Lewis

“…The general reaction to famous people who hold difficult opinions is that they can’t really mean it. It’s considered, generally, to be merely an astute way of attracting public attention, a way of making oneself interesting...”- James Baldwin, No Name in The Street James Baldwin was more than a writer and ...