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

“The Young Karl Marx”

A film review

After a month in American theaters, the box office for “The young Karl Marx” was all of $58,277. This is almost incomprehensible as this is a wonderful, politically, historically and culturally rich film. A major international collaboration with first rate foreign actors, the film played at a single indie theater on ...
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“The Young Karl Marx”