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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 40m

Perhaps actors need to get diversity consultants to check scripts before they accept them.

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 41m

Silver Linings Playbook released in 2012

normalizes Benjamin Franklin when he was a slave owner.

If you're going to mention him in a movie, then be honest about his past, instead of whitewashing over it. Or don't mention him.

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#movie #blackactors #blacksky

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 47m

Sudan’s civil war is rooted in its historical favouritism of Arab and Islamic identity
theconversation.com/sudans-civil...

Runner releassed in 2019

whitewashes over the racial nature of the Sudanese conflict

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#movie #blackmovie #sudanesemovie #blacksky #addtoblacksky

Sudan’s civil war is rooted in its historical favouritism of Arab and Islamic identity

Peace in Sudan requires a focus on the concerns of historically marginalised populations in conflict zones.

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 50m

cost of taking such a role.

James Baldwin [ bsky.app/profile/did:... ] wrote that when whites realise what's going on they have a choice whether to turn their backs on the advantages of their birth or not.

This white woman gave up some of her privilege by taking this role.]

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 22h

James Arthur Baldwin (neé Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987)

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#blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackcreatives #blackhistory #blackwriters #blacktivists #blackgay #blackLGBTQ #blacksky #addtoblacksky

Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 55m

She may be best known for her role in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), in which she played Mayella Violet Ewell, whose father falsely claimed she had been raped by a [Black Man], which sparks the trial at the center of the film."

[She never starred in a film again - the

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 59m

"she played Mayella Violet Ewell, whose father falsely claimed she had been raped by a Black Man"

"Collin Randall Wilcox (February 4, 1935 – October 14, 2009) was an American film, stage and television actress.

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 1h

...On May 17, 2024, a blue plaque was unveiled by Nubian Jak Community Trust/Black History Walks to honour Baldwin at the site where in 1985 he visited the C. L. R. James Library in the London Borough of Hackney

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James Baldwin - Wikipedia

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 1h

existing cultural references to Baldwin, 30 years after his death, and concluded: "So Baldwin is not just a writer for the ages, but a scribe whose work—as squarely as George Orwell's—speaks directly to ours."

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 1h

It is a film that questions Black representation in Hollywood and beyond.

In 2017, Scott Timberg wrote an essay for the Los Angeles Times ("30 years after his death, James Baldwin is having a new pop culture moment") in which he noted

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 1h

In 2016, Raoul Peck released his documentary film I Am Not Your Negro. It is based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript, Remember This House. It is a 93-minute journey into Black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights Movement to the present of Black Lives Matter.

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 1h

Also in 2014, The Social Justice Hub at The New School's newly opened University Center was named the Baldwin Rivera Boggs Center after activists Baldwin, Sylvia Rivera, and Grace Lee Boggs.

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 1h

The events were attended by Council Member Inez Dickens, who led the campaign to honor Harlem native's son; also taking part were Baldwin's family, theatre and film notables, and members of the community...

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 1h

In 2014, East 128th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues was named "James Baldwin Place" to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Baldwin's birth. He lived in the neighborhood and attended P.S. 24. Readings of Baldwin's writing were held at The National Black Theatre...

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 1h

Baldwin votive candle, 2022 ...In 2005, the United States Postal Service created a first-class postage stamp dedicated to Baldwin, which featured him on the front with a short biography on the back of the peeling paper...

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 1h

Spike Lee's 1996 film Get on the Bus includes a Black gay character, played by Isaiah Washington, who punches a homophobic character, saying: "This is for James Baldwin and Langston Hughes."

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 1h

One of Baldwin's richest short stories, "Sonny's Blues", appears in many anthologies of short fiction used in introductory college literature classes...

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 1h

"No other black writer I'd read was as literary as Baldwin in his early essays, not even Ralph Ellison. There is something wild in the beauty of Baldwin's sentences and the cool of his tone, something improbable, too, this meeting of Henry James, the Bible, and Harlem."

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 2h

A third volume, Later Novels (2015), was edited by Darryl Pinckney, who had delivered a talk on Baldwin in February 2013 to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The New York Review of Books, during which Pinckney stated:

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 2h

"among the most considerable moral essayists in the United States".

Baldwin's influence on other writers has been profound: Toni Morrison edited the Library of America's first two volumes of Baldwin's fiction and essays: Early Novels & Stories (1998) and Collected Essays (1998).

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 2h

You knew. This then is no calamity. No. This is jubilee. "Our crown," you said, "has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do," you said, "is wear it"

Legacy and critical response
Literary critic Harold Bloom characterized Baldwin as

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 2h

You knew, didn't you, how I needed your language and the mind that formed it? How I relied on your fierce courage to tame wildernesses for me? How strengthened I was by the certainty that came from knowing you would never hurt me? You knew, didn't you, how I loved your love?

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 2h

the person who showed her the true potential of writing. She writes:

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 2h

Baldwin was also a close friend of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison. Upon his death, Morrison wrote a eulogy for Baldwin that appeared in The New York Times. In the eulogy, entitled "Life in His Language", Morrison credits Baldwin as being her literary inspiration and

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 2h

Miles Davis, Amiri Baraka, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothea Tanning, Leonor Fini, Margaret Mead, Josephine Baker, Allen Ginsberg, Chinua Achebe, and Maya Angelou. He wrote at length about his "political relationship" with Malcolm X...

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 2h

whom he met in Paris in the early 1960s. Baldwin also knew Marlon Brando... Billy Dee Williams, Huey P. Newton, Nikki Giovanni, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet (with whom he campaigned on behalf of the Black Panther Party), Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, Rip Torn, Alex Haley,

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