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James Baldwin Born August 2, 1924 in Harlem, NY, Died December 1 1987, St. Paul-de-Vence, France
The first of nine children of Berdis (Jones) a clergyman and a factory worker, David (step-father), in Harlem, NY. Baldwin was a storefront preacher for three years starting at [...]

This is certainly an interesting political campaign for Mayor in the nation’s capital. In January I wrote a Friday Comment titled The Perils of Bourgeois Politics and this campaign certainly looks like I was dead on in my commentary according to this Washington Post article. Lets keep our eyes on this campaign because it will [...]

Once You Learn How to Read, You Will Be Forever Free!~Frederick Douglass
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Alex Heard is an editor at Wired magazine. He has also edited and written for The New York Times Magazine, Outside, The New Republic, Slate, and many other publications.
Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargesia, Somalia in 1981 and was educated in the [...]

I do not remember much about August 28, 1963 because I was just shy of my seventh birthday. In my young forming mind I was not thinking about Martin Luther King, Jr. or the protest that had been waged in Birmingham, Alabama that spring. The thing that most concerned me that August was my baseball [...]

Spike Lee returns to document New Orleans 5 years later with a sequel to his Emmy Award winning documentary “When the Levees Broke”. In conjunction with HBO Spike is back in the Big Easy documenting the progress and lack there of in rebuilding one the nation’s most distinct and culturally diverse cities with a film [...]

In 1990, Activist and Legendary actors, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis visited Fort Wayne, IN to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of Gingerbread House Preschool center. A portion of their Panel Discussion appeared on a talks show entitled “A New Generation”.
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Once you learn how to read, you will be forever free~Frederick Douglass
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Once you learn how to read, you will be forever free~Frederick Douglass
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Karla FC Holloway is James B.Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Professor Holloway is the author of eight books, including Passed On: African-American Mourning Stories (2002) and BookMarks–Reading in Black and White, A Memoir (2006) completed during a residency in Bellagio, Italy as [...]

Character-driven satirical drama about a young, extraordinarily intellectual black activist wannabe who is discovered as the political critic sending out anonymous emails that criticize todays black leadership. Instead of holding it against him, the black leader who finds him out hires his worst critic as a second adviser.
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NBC Interview with the Filmmaker Clayton [...]

If you learn how to read, you will be forever free~Frederick Douglass
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Carole C. Marks is a professor of sociology at the University of Delaware and the coauthor of The Power of Pride: Stylemakers and Rulebreakers of the Harlem Renaissance.
Robert Stepto’s fields of interest include early African American narratives (Equiano to Douglass and Jacobs), American Renaissance [...]