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I Am Not Your Negro - Official Trailer

Video Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing 5 January 2017

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNUYdgIyaPM

Beauford Delaney’s “Portrait of James Baldwin” (1945)

in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Credit...© Estate of Beauford Delaney

by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,

court-appointed administrator;

courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC,

New York, NY

Who James Baldwin Knew

The celebrated writer moved between many worlds,

becoming close friends with major figures

— from Marlon Brando to Toni Morrison —

in art, activism and beyond.

NYT

Dec. 11, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/
t-magazine/who-james-baldwin-knew.html

Writer James Baldwin at home

in Saint Paul de Vence, South of France, in 1985.

Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images

Did I Get James Baldwin Wrong?

NYT

FEBRUARY 5, 2017 6:04 PM ET

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/02/05/
513144736/did-i-get-james-baldwin-wrong

James Baldwin.

Honoring Black Artists in Light and Shadow

NYT

1 February 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/
lens/honoring-black-artists-in-light-and-shadow.html

James Baldwin, New York, 1975.

Photograph: Anthony Barboza

Getty Images

Whatever Happened to Moral Rigor?

James Baldwin understood the difference

between empathy and approval.

Today,

we would rather condemn than understand.

NYT

July 25, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/
opinion/james-baldwin-public-morality-empathy.html

James Baldwin by his typewriter. Istanbul. 1966.

Photograph: Sedat Pakay

African-American Life, Double-Exposed

NYT

Apr. 17, 2015

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/
african-american-life-double-exposed/

James Baldwin in 1964,

attending the opening of his play Blues for Mister Charlie

in New York.

Photograph: Robert Elfstrom

Villon Films, via Getty Images

James Baldwin’s Archive, Long Hidden, Comes (Mostly) Into View

By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER NYT APRIL 12, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/
arts/james-baldwins-archive-long-hidden-comes-mostly-into-view.html

James Baldwin with a boy in Durham, N.C., 1963.

Mr. Schapiro’s images of Mr. Baldwin’s 1963 tour of the South

were included in Mr. Baldwin’s book “The Fire Next Time.”

Photograph: Steve Schapiro.

Steve Schapiro, Photojournalist Who Bore Witness, Dies at 87

He documented the civil rights movement

and subjects as diverse as narcotics users,

migrant workers and movie stars,

seeking to capture their emotional heart.

NYT

Published Jan. 24, 2022

Updated Jan. 25, 2022, 11:46 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/
arts/steve-schapiro-dead.html

James Baldwin and Medgar Evers

read a newspaper together in Mississippi, 1963.

Photograph: Steve Schapiro

Corbis/Getty Images

The celebrated writer moved between many worlds,

becoming close friends with major figures

— from Marlon Brando to Toni Morrison —

in art, activism and beyond.

NYT

Dec. 11, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/
t-magazine/who-james-baldwin-knew.html

James Baldwin and Marlon Brando

at the Lincoln Memorial

during the August 1963 March on Washington.

Posing with them are Charleton Heston (left)

and Harry Belafonte [ behind Heston ].

Photograph: AP Photos

Who James Baldwin Knew

The celebrated writer moved between many worlds,

becoming close friends with major figures

— from Marlon Brando to Toni Morrison —

in art, activism and beyond.

NYT

Dec. 11, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/
t-magazine/who-james-baldwin-knew.html

James Baldwin addresses a congregation

in a New Orleans church, circa 1963.

Photograph: Steve Schapiro

Corbis, via Getty Images

What the Church Meant for James Baldwin

Although he ultimately rejected Pentecostalism,

the writer captured its pathos

and ability to bear witness to Blackness in America

in his first novel.

NYT

Dec. 4, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04
/t-magazine/james-baldwin-pentecostal-church.html

James Baldwin, Colored Only Entrance,

New Orleans, 1963.

Steve Schapiro: Heroic Times – in pictures

Tuesday 19 December 2017

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/dec/19/
steve-schapiro-heroic-times-in-pictures

James Baldwin in 1962.

Photograph: Carl Mydans

Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

James Baldwin’s Paris

NYT

JAN. 17, 2014

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/
travel/james-baldwins-paris.html

Baldwin’s novel is a testament

to the profound change the Great Migration had on America.

Here, the writer joins hands with the folk singer Joan Baez

and Jim Forman, the Chairman of the S.N.C.C.,

as they enter Montgomery, Ala.,

during the Selma to Montgomery March for Voting Rights

in March 1965.

Photograph: Matt Herron

TakeStock/TopFoto

What the Church Meant for James Baldwin

Although he ultimately rejected Pentecostalism,

the writer captured its pathos

and ability to bear witness to Blackness in America

in his first novel.

NYT

Dec. 4, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04
/t-magazine/james-baldwin-pentecostal-church.html

James Baldwin with his younger sister, Paula,

in 1953, the year “Go Tell It on the Mountain”

was published.

Photograph:

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum

of African American History & Culture,

gift of the Baldwin Family © James Baldwin Estate

What the Church Meant for James Baldwin

Although he ultimately rejected Pentecostalism,

the writer captured its pathos

and ability to bear witness to Blackness in America

in his first novel.

NYT

Dec. 4, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04
/t-magazine/james-baldwin-pentecostal-church.html

James Arthur Baldwin 1924-1987

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/obituaries/archives/
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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https://www.nytimes.com/article/
james-baldwin-best-books.html - February 28, 2024

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/01/
1198908482/james-baldwins-fire-throwback

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jun/07/
tina-turner-to-cindy-crawford-icons-shot-by-richard-avedon-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/02/
theater/baldwin-buckley-at-cambridge-review.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/
theater/james-baldwin-lorraine-hansberry-friendship.html

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/06/
1096907447/anna-malaika-tubbs-the-forgotten-mothers-of-civil-rights-history

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/11/
begin-again-by-eddie-s-glaude-jr-review-james-baldwin-george-floyd

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/17/
t-magazine/baldwin-new-york-paris.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/
t-magazine/james-baldwin-pentecostal-church.html

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/20/
914548619/reimagining-the-james-baldwin-and-william-f-buckley-debate

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/
books/review-begin-again-james-baldwin-eddie-glaude-jr.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/
books/review/the-fire-is-upon-us-nicholas-buccola.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/24/
the-big-picture-civil-rights-1964-steven-schapiro-james-baldwin-fire-next-time

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/23/
james-baldwin-exhibition-hilton-als

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/
opinion/james-baldwin-public-morality-empathy.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/
obituaries/julius-lester-chronicler-of-black-america-
is-dead-at-79.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/dec/19/
steve-schapiro-heroic-times-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/22/
james-baldwin-interview-1962

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/
arts/james-baldwins-archive-long-hidden-comes-mostly-into-view.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/apr/07/
i-am-not-your-negro-review-james-baldwin-raoul-peck-documentary

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/04/
james-baldwin-the-fire-next-time-steve-shapiro

https://www.theguardian.com/society/audio/2017/mar/31/
the-i-am-not-your-negro-documentary-episode-token-podcast

https://www.npr.org/2017/02/14/
515196224/director-raoul-peck-
james-baldwin-was-speaking-directly-to-me

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/02/05/
513144736/did-i-get-james-baldwin-wrong

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/03/
513311359/i-am-not-your-negro-
gives-james-baldwins-words-new-relevance

https://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2017/02/03/
512892549/oscar-documentaries-
and-a-foreign-language-film-we-loved

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/
movies/review-i-am-not-your-negro-review-james-baldwin.html

www.npr.org/2017/02/02/
511860933/james-baldwin-in-his-own-searing-revelatory-words-
i-am-not-your-negro

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/25/
100-best-nonfiction-books-notes-of-a-native-son-james-baldwin

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/
books/review/letters-james-baldwin-richard-wright.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/
books/review/james-baldwin-denounced-richard-wrights-native-son-
as-a-protest-novel-was-he-right.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/
books/james-baldwin-born-90-years-ago-is-fading-in-classrooms.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/
travel/james-baldwins-paris.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/10/
jamesbaldwin

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/12/
fiction.jamesbaldwin

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/sep/14/
jamesbaldwin

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/30/
archives/baldwin-enunciates-ray-charless-soul-childhood-recalled-study.html

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20th century > USA > Civil rights

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