Archive for the ‘Race’ Category
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Black Boy – Richard Wright
27 Aug 2021It occurred to me as I was listening to a wonderful reading of Richard Wright’s Black Boy (1945) that it…
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James Baldwin: Going to Meet the Man
26 Aug 2020For many, James Baldwin will be most recently familiar from the 2016 documentary by Raoul Peck, “I Am Not Your…
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“The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed”
02 Jul 2020“Why do you have your guns out?” – Kenneth Chamberlain, 66 “What are you following me for?” – Trayvon Martin,…
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Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? a documentary ….
03 Mar 2018Travis Wilkerson’s new film, Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?, is having a few, hard to find, viewings in the…
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James Baldwin: The Voice and the Image
23 Mar 2017Listening to Adam Lazzare-White read James Baldwin’s Go Tell it On the Mountain, is as close to being in a…
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Movies: Documenting the Black Experience
17 Mar 2017Two documentary films from 2016 have made important splashes in the sea of movies available this year, not as big…
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Movies: Black Fiction, Black History
22 Feb 2017What a great couple of months it’s been for movies about the African-American experience. The African-American Film Critics Association calls 2016…
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
29 Aug 2016It’s hard to know what words to use to praise a book like Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy. It’s not a…
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Muhammad Ali, on World Peace
27 Jun 2016On August 5, 1978, a letter to the editor was published in The Nation Magazine. Its author was Muhammad Ali,…
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Resisted War, Resisted Racism, Resisted Silence: George Houser
21 Aug 2015Ninety Nine years is only the last accomplishment of George Houser’s amazing life: WW II conscientious objector, 1940 Co-founder of the…
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Race is Not a Useful Concept
20 Jan 2014The 2014 Annual Question at Edge.Org, surely a site you should check in with periodically, is “What Scientific Idea is…
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Lyin’ Lou Dobbs
30 May 2007What a fine thing to read hanging high on the first business page of the NY Times. Dave Leonhardt does…
