Face Value
My reading has been flowing back and forth between James Baldwin and Pauli Murray. I’ve had Murray’s autobiographical book, Proud Shoes (1956) on my shelf for months, and now find…
Tag: Black Lives Matter
Holding the Opposition
Writer James Baldwin turned nineteen on the day of his father’s funeral (August 3, 1943). A “race riot” had broken out in Harlem that day, so the mourners “drove my…
Whose Liberty?
I just came across this quote from Lincoln who spoke these words in Baltimore one year before the end of the Civil War and his assassination (April 1864). Timely indeed.…
