James Baldwin: Still So Much To Teach Us
“The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”
James Baldwin wrote that in 1963, but as we watch teachers and their students leading pro-labor protests in Wisconsin and around the country, it remains truer than ever. Baldwin died in 1987, but his novels and essays–and his activism–live on. This week at NYU, a conference examining Baldwin’s work and influence in today’s globalized world is meeting, and Laura sat down with two of the speakers, Hortense Spillers and Darryl Pinckney, to discuss why Baldwin’s work still feels so vital, so important. (Source)
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