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How To Feel Good And Live Simply
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. —Ernest Hemingway Feel Good If you suffer, it is because of you. If you feel blissful, it is because of you....
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21 Signs Your Relationship Is Doomed
___ Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. – James Baldwin The thrill is gone The thrill is gone away The thrill is gone...
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When You’re the Only Gay Person You Know
— When I was growing up, in the 1960s, there weren’t a lot of role models for young men like me. I came out at the age of sixteen, but I knew I was gay at about seven—which meant I spent a lot of years...
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Justice and Peace Require Giving of Ourselves
Embed from Getty Images — My two children are the gravity that keeps me in orbit. They keep me vigilant and present and compassionate. I keep them well-aware of their African American heritage via our...
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The Privilege of Civility
My progressive and liberal friends are arguing again. The midterm elections are approaching. We’re reeling from several acts of violence including shootings that killed eleven at a temple and two at a...
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Romance and Racism: How Beale Street Fuses James Baldwin’s Two Voices
12.13.18: Philadelphia – (Culture): Mr. Barry Jenkins, the acclaimed director of Moonlight, is aware of how large a shadow his 2016 tour de force cast. But his 2018 masterpiece, If Beale Street Could...
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How I Learned to Connect My Story with the Story of White Supremacy
“If only there was a word that was less offensive than racist,” said a friend the week after Trump’s 2016 election victory. No matter what the conservation topic was that week it inevitably turned into...
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First Queer Person I Met: Ep 1 Zach
00:00 that’s was a very fun this thing right 00:01 here hi I’m Zach Stafford I am the 00:06 editor-in-chief of it – I realized I was 00:08 clear oof I knew it five it was nap time 00:12 and I was...
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Where Are You REALLY From?
Human migration is a tale as old as time, but how has that impacted Black culture here in the U.S.? Hallease and Evelyn explore how the movement of Black folks has created icons from James Baldwin to...
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Thinking of Baldwin in the Era of MAGA
“The very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and my chains fell off.”— James Baldwin, 1963 If he were alive today, James Arthur Baldwin would be 95 years old. With all the current divisiveness...
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James Baldwin Saw This Coming
There are times when I think myself to be a decent writer, having strung together thoughts in a manner almost artistic, if still far from poetic. And then I make the mistake — a happy one but a mistake...
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James Baldwin (1924-1987)
By Stephen G. Hall This informational blog celebrates the life of the writer James Baldwin (b. August 2, 1924). Note: Compiled by and Reprinted with Permission from Abdul Aklaimat, PhD *** James...
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Positive Storytelling Is Essential to Progressing the Black Narrative in the...
When we hear about the black experience, we think about the times of slavery and the oppression that our forefathers faced. From an early age, we learned about African-American history through the...
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James Baldwin’s Letter To His Nephew
“Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go. The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what...
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George Floyd, Derek Chauvin, Police Brutality and the Ongoing Devaluation of...
Throughout the past week, I have spoken with friends of all races, ethnic groups, and genders about the ongoing racial conflicts that are routinely plaguing this nation. I will admit: I was hesitant to...
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‘Talkin’ to You’ About Masculinity and Manhood in the 21st Century
James Baldwin, the 20th century intellectual and social critic, once observed: The American idea of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American idea of masculinity. This truism raises complex...
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Baldwin’s Quote
Statement I don’t want to be in a rage. It is not healthy, Jimmy Baldwin, not good. I can’t leave this country or perhaps I can. But where am I to go? The hate of here is everywhere. It is like hand...
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What Would James Baldwin Say About Critical Race Theory?
White people go around, it seems to me, with a very carefully suppressed terror of Black people — a tremendous uneasiness. They don’t know what the Black face hides. They’re sure it’s hiding something....
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Odysseus at San Quentin
The opening of The Odyssey describes Odysseus as polytropos, a man “much turned” and “much turning.” He makes much happen, and much happens to him. When I selected The Odyssey as the first text for my...
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Where Do the Smart, the Sensitive, and the Creative Travel?
[In this series of posts, I want to introduce you to a certain idea, metaphor, and reality: The International Bohemian Highway. Millions of people who do not fit comfortably into a conventional life...
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