This week’s column celebrates the 100th anniversary of writer James Baldwin’s birth on August 2, 1924. Baldwin was a freethinker […]
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Three Mothers
This week’s column shines a much-deserved light on three influential mothers who, in their own way, shaped our history. Three […]
Thought for the Day
Baldwin dropped this line on my brain while reading a collection of his essays: “Not everything that is faced can […]
Face Value
My reading has been flowing back and forth between James Baldwin and Pauli Murray. I’ve had Murray’s autobiographical book, Proud […]
Baldwin on Education and Freethought
The more I read James Baldwin, the more I sense he had his finger on the national and human pulse. […]
Holding the Opposition
Writer James Baldwin turned nineteen on the day of his father’s funeral (August 3, 1943). A “race riot” had broken […]
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