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: James Baldwin
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. The following quote on education also serves as a brilliant…
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…
