(2 of 2) "...that before we can do very much in the way of clear thinking or clear doing as relates to the minorities in this country, we must first crack the American image and find out and deal with what it hides." -James Baldwn

(1 o 2) "To speak in my own person, as a member of the nation’s most oppressed minority, the oldest oppressed minority, I want to suggest most seriously..." James Baldwin

(2 of 2) "James Baldwin did not tell a shallow story. Nor did he tell a black-and-white story. Rather, he asked people to discover an entirely new story: We made the world we’re living in and we have to make it over." Sahil Handa

(1 of 2) In his article on Baldwin, Sahil argues: "Politics is a game of competing stories about national identity. And today, too many people are trying to tell a shallow story."

Sahil Handa's "What James Baldwin Can Teach Us..." (originally published in 2021)

(3 of 3) “Educating the conqueror is not our business. But if it were, the best way to do it is to not explain anything to him, but to make ourselves strong”. -Morrison

(2 of 3)...“ Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing”. Morrison

(1 of 3) “The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do..." -Toni Morrison

James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer‐reviewed critical and creative non-fiction on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin.
www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...

Cautiously optimistic about receiving student essays not written by A.I. this semester...😬 The things I never thought I would write....

Read a section of Brianna Nofil’s The Migrant’s Jail on Inquest today: inquest.org/a-nation-of-...

A group of 18 state attorneys general signed on to a lawsuit filed Tuesday seeking to block the administration's move, describing it as unconstitutional.

I love this so much!

At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.

This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.

Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from....

I was just in New Orleans for the MLA convention. This is wild.