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Barry Jenkins Sets James Baldwin Adaptation ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ As First Post-‘Moonlight’ Feature | Indie Wire
The very busy filmmaker has finally announced his first film project after his historic Oscar win.
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James Baldwin FBI Files: How the Author’s Fearlessness Toward the FBI and Others Led to a Decade Long Witch-hunt – Atlanta Black Star
One of the many paradoxes of American society is that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has become both destroyer and archivists of 20th-century American radicalism.
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James Baldwin’s letters acquired by the Schomburg – New York Amsterdam News
James Baldwin, a native son of Harlem, is home again, at least some of his precious letters and other artifacts are after having been acquisitioned by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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The Misunderstood Ghost of James Baldwin – Slate
How critics have misconstrued his influence on today’s great black nonfiction writers.
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Meet Raoul Peck, Director of the Powerful New James Baldwin Documentary ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ – Okay Africa
“The story of the Negro in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story. What can we do?”
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James Baldwin, Onstage
Meshell Ndegeocello creates a piece of theatre inspired by “The Fire Next Time” and presents it as a church service.
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“I Am Not Your Negro” film based on James Baldwin book
One of the most artistic and daring political statements at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), was the world premiere of Haitian-born Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro, based on James Baldwin’s unfinished book Remember This House.
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