#jamesbaldwin — Public Fediverse posts

People and books that helped form who I am today:

#GrahamGreene
#JohnUpdike
#WalkerPercy
#kurtvonnegutjr
#JohnIrving
#RalphEllison
#HermannHesse
#LorenEiseley
#JamesBaldwin
#JohnSteinbeck
#RayBradbury
#FrankHerbert
#StrangerInAStrangeLand
#MalcomX
#KimStanleyRobinson
#JulianJaynes
#SomeTimesAGreatNotion
#WendellBerry
#WhatArePeopleFor
#EdwardAbbey
#DesertSolitaire
#TomRussell
#CarlHiaasen
#MichaelPollan
#BotanyOfDesire
#PattiSmith
#MichaelStipe
#DavidSedaris
#CormacMcCarthy

Don Lemon at HRC dinner: 'When the First Amendment becomes optional, democracy becomes hollow'

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/don-lemon-speech-hrc-dinner

#WMPG honors #BlackHistoryMonth

"WMPG recognizes Black History Month with special programming throughout the month of February, highlighting the voices, music, history, and lived experiences of Black artists, activists, and storytellers.

Tune in to hear programs that celebrate Black creativity and resilience across genres and generations, from music that shaped movements to conversations that deepen our understanding of the past and present."

Segments include:
#MarshaPJohnson, #RobertLewis, #EarthaKitt, #MalcomX, #AlvinAiley, #BobGreen, #ChadwickBoseman, #DukeEllington, #LewisLatimer, #AudreLord, #ATribeCalledQuest, #OtisRedding, #NelsonMandela, #GarzaCullorsTometi, #LeslieOdomJr, #NinaSimone, #AudraMcDonald #BelHooks, #Beyonce, #FlorencePrice, #JamesBaldwin, #MuhammadAli, #ScottJoplin, #GraceVenuzaRogers, #BobTheDragQueen, #GordonParks, #KobeBryant, #WEBDubois, #BarackObama, #AudreLorde, #Lizzo, #KatherineJohnson, #ClaudetteColvin, #RhiannonGiddens, #TaranaBurke, #TeresaKachindamoto, #ShirleyChisholm, #ThurgoodMarshall, #HarrietTubman, #JohnBrownRusswurm, #StevieWonder, #LeadBelly, #MaryMcleodBethune, #ShirleyChisolm, #LeonardCummings, #MaeJemison, #BadBrains, #CornelWest, #MaconBollingAllen, #SpikeLee, #BeverlyGlennCopeland, #AngelaDavis, #SojournerTruth, #HankAaron, #BillieHoliday, #GeraldTalbot, #TrevorNoah, #JosephineBaker, #JackieRobinson, #ArethaFranklin, #ToniMorrison, #RobertLewis, #IndigoArts

Listen:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-honors-black-history-month/

#BlackHistory #BlackArtists #BlackMusicians #BlackActivists #CommunityRadio #CollegeRadio

#BuonaDomenica #Buongiorno

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"Gridalo forte" di James Baldwin, 300 pagine, Fandango Libri, edizione 2024.

#GridaloForte di #JamesBaldwin

Le prime pagine non mi avevano preso, poi piano piano mi ha conquistato.
Una storia familiare fatta di dolore, violenza, espiazione cercando salvezza e riscatto.

#libri #leggere #cosaLeggoNelWeekend #26ottobre

Celebrating Juneteenth

Photography by Carl Van Vechten in 1950s Harlem:

1) actor James Earl Jones
2) writer James Baldwin
3) Billie Holiday
4) writer WEB DuBois

#carlvanvechten #writer #writers #photographer #zoranealehurston #joycebryant #actor #africanamericanhistory #blackhistory #jamesearljones #singer #jamesbaldwin #author #billieholiday #webdubois #harlem #1950s #1950sharlem #harlemrenaissance #photography #50sstyle #style #juneteenth

“A #history professor who leads a course on genocide was instructed not to mention atrocities committed against Native Americans, according to several academy officials. The English department purged works by well-known Black authors, such as #ToniMorrison, #JamesBaldwin and #TaNehisiCoates, the officials said.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/politics/west-point-hegseth-culture-wars.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk8.O5Jr.AnHC5rwItZPR&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=g

“A #history professor who leads a course on genocide was instructed not to mention atrocities committed against Native Americans, according to several academy officials. The English department purged works by well-known Black authors, such as #ToniMorrison, #JamesBaldwin and #TaNehisiCoates, the officials said.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/politics/west-point-hegseth-culture-wars.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk8.O5Jr.AnHC5rwItZPR&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=g

#7books that made a difference to me in no particular order. Judge me, because who doesn’t?
“The Parade's Gone By . . . “ by #KevinBrownlow
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by #DanaStevens
Tales of the City by #ArmisteadMaupin
The Cider House Rules by #JohnIrving
Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited... by #MollyHaskell
The Fire Next Time by #JamesBaldwin
Shatterday by #HarlanEllison

What white people see when they look at you is not visible. What they do see when they do look at you is what they have invested you with. What they have invested you with is all the agony, and pain, and the danger, and the passion, and the torment—you know, sin, death, and hell—of which everyone in this country is terrified.

—#JamesBaldwin, 1961 intv. #StudsTerkel
*img c 1945 #RichardAvedon James, Harlem
https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/blog/james-baldwin-incredible-humiliation-black-people-america

To be a Negro in this country is really—#RalphEllison has said it very well—never to be looked at.

—#JamesBaldwin, 1961 interview with #StudsTerkel
*img 1996 #GlennLigon. Grey Hands #3 (1995 Million Man March)