#jamesbaldwin — Public Fediverse posts
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In my childhood, my family visited Dollywood probably a dozen times, and they had hundreds of interactive exhibits for children. That place kindled within my mind a relentless curiosity and unbounded imagination (traits that make fascists tremble in their jackboots), and those types of childhood experiences contributed more to who I am as an adult today than anything I ever learned in school. By and large, my school teachers only taught me *what* to think. Dolly Parton was among a select few adults who, by their words and actions, taught me *how* to think.
I don't actually believe in an afterlife, but I like to imagine Dolly taking her seat at a small table in heaven, with Fred Rogers on her right, James Baldwin on her left, and Carl Sagan across from her. What a warm, thoughtful, nuanced, and intellectually stimulating discussion they could have together!
#DollyParton #Dollywood #Imagination #Curiosity #CriticalThinking #FredRogers #JamesBaldwin #CarlSagan
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August 28, 1963 March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom
Advocating for civil & economic rights for Black Americans. Attending were Diahann Carroll, Marlon Brando, James Garner, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr, Burt Lancaster, James Baldwin & Harry Belafonte.
#civilrights #diahanncarroll #paulnewman #charltonheston #marlonbrando #jamesbaldwin #harrybelafonte #jamesgarner #burtlancaster #sidneypoitier #sammydavisjr #marchonwashington #1963marchonwashington #africanamericanhistory #americanhistory #history #civilrightshistory
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August 28, 1963 March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom
Advocating for civil & economic rights for Black Americans. Attending were Diahann Carroll, Marlon Brando, James Garner, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr, Burt Lancaster, James Baldwin & Harry Belafonte
#civilrights #charltonheston #jamesbaldwin #harrybelafonte #burtlancaster #sidneypoitier #marchonwashington #1963marchonwashington #africanamericanhistory #americanhistory #history #civilrightshistory
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Barack Obama launches podcast about books that ‘shaped his worldview’ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/10/barack-obama-launches-podcast-about-books-that-shaped-his-worldview #Books #Podcasts #BarackObama #Media #Culture #Podcasting #ToniMorrison #JohnLeCarr #JamesBaldwin #CormacMccarthy #MarilynneRobinson #TelevisionRadio #UsNews #DigitalMedia
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Barack Obama launches podcast about books that ‘shaped his worldview’
By Ella CreamerThe former US president will host six episodes of A Great Book for Audible, discussing work from Toni Morrison and John le Carré to James Baldwin
#Books #Podcasts #BarackObama #Media #Culture #Podcasting #ToniMorrison #JohnleCarr #JamesBaldwin #CormacMcCarthy #MarilynneRobinson #Televisionradio #USnews #Digitalmedia #TheGuardian #EllaCreamer
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
#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, #IndigoArtsListen:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-honors-black-history-month/#BlackHistory #BlackArtists #BlackMusicians #BlackActivists #CommunityRadio #CollegeRadio
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y4OPYp4s0tc#
Getting into James Baldwin. So many of his concerns are still ours today, regardless of color, and he's comforting to hear, but makes me sad to realize that even after his eloquence and our efforts, the world refuses to change into a home of patience, inclusion, kindness, courage and dignity. 🤬
#justice
#conversations
#theopenworldof42
#history
#truth
#soul
#nikkigiovanni
#jamesbaldwin
#love
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So here is more for you @geriruth
At the end of this speech to teachers, #Baldwin restated the thesis in these words, more frequently quoted:
"I began by saying that one of the paradoxes of education was that precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience, you must find yourself at war with your society. It is your responsibility to change society if you think of yourself as an educated person."
#teach #learn #class #society #obey #obedience #teaching #learning #control #school #education #imagination #performance #ranking #meritocracy #practice #training #merit #institutionsDeceive #JamesBaldwin #reform #teachers
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#SocialJustice #intellectuals #history #JamesBaldwin
"Five years after George Floyd, many liberals blame 'wokeness' for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with?
On February 18, 1965, students at Cambridge University assembled for a debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr. on the topic of racism in America. Before a rapt audience, Baldwin spoke of not only the stolen labor of slaves that had enriched the Southern economy but also the daily humiliations of being Black — 'the policeman, the taxi drivers, the waiters, the landlady, the landlord, the banks, the insurance companies, the millions of details 24 hours of every day which spell out to you that you are a worthless human being.'
Buckley, in his famous mid-Atlantic sneer, responded that the economic condition of Black Americans had risen so greatly since slavery that they had, essentially, nothing to complain about. Of course, Buckley was lying through his teeth: Almost half of all Black Americans were living in poverty. His real disagreement with Baldwin lay at the social level. The odious behavior of a few individual whites was regrettable, but it was no great obstacle. The real problem was that Black people lacked the kind of serious moral and intellectual 'energy' necessary to produce a professional elite. Instead, the civil-rights movement had encouraged a self-defeating posture of victimhood among Black people that young white liberals were all too eager to affirm. Thanks to the 'generosity' of white Americans, Black people had already attained economic justice, Buckley suggested. The last thing they needed was social justice too.
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Another way to put this is that all social movements are also intellectual movements: They both contribute to and rely on the ideological groundwater of society. Williams would have us believe that someone who smashes a storefront window in Minneapolis or pitches a tent in Morningside Heights is engaged in the opposite of thinking. But the panicking ruling class wasn’t just interested in flattening the encampments or quelling the looters; it wanted to crush the ideas that these things represented. This is what Baldwin was getting at when he spoke of the 'spiritual state' of America. 'The political institutions of any nation,' he wrote in *The Fire Next Time*, 'are always menaced and controlled by the spiritual state of that nation.' What he meant, I think, was that every time a person contests or defends a political situation, they are also contesting or defending the intellectual terms on which that contest is conducted. You cannot fight without fighting about how you fight. That is why Williams cares so desperately about what the summer of 2020 made us think, even if the protests manifestly failed to achieve their objective goals; it is also why liberal institutions were so eager to snatch up these ideas and exhaust their potential before tossing us back the husks. What Mamdani’s win suggests, however, is that they did not get them all."
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#TBT #1971 #NikkiGiovanni and #JamesBaldwin in conversation. Two of the finest minds that any civilization has ever produced. IMHO This is a must-see. #History #AmericanHistory #Literature #USPol https://www.allarts.org/programs/generational-anxiety/soul-featuring-james-baldwin-nikki-giovanni-part-1-wv7gqj/
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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
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🧵 1/2: Today is the 60th anniversary of #JamesBaldwin vs. William Buckley debating at #Cambridge the question "Is the #AmericanDream at the expense of the #American Negro?"
I urge you to watch the full debate below, not only to witness #Baldwin's extraordinary oratory skills, his emotional intelligence & foresight, but also to suffer the pretentious, prejudiced & wildly unaware argument of Buckley, which explains the wilful laisser-faire attitude to #whitesupremacy.
