All posts tagged "James Baldwin"
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Black Reading Pleasure: On finding a Lovesource
By zing taiwo In college, reading the work of Black authors became a watering hole for me. I’d be huddled in the stacks of our college...
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Remembering and Honoring Toni Cade Bambara
Sonia Sanchez: What are we pretending not to know today? The premise as you said, my sister, being that colored people on planet earth really...
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Personal is Political: A Letter to Toni
Pearl Cleage: I remember us welcoming our own daughters into our undeniably bohemian lives and wanting them to grow up strong and free. We wanted...
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Disentangling Radical Love from Narcissism
By Lisa (Leigh) Patel Sometimes when some folks approach me out of an assumed shared cultural identity, I get tight. Recently another South Asian woman...
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Every 28 Hours: An Ode to Renisha McBride (A Sermon)
By Nyle Fort The following is a sermon delivered on January 19, 2014 at the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens (Somerset, NJ). The preaching...
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AUDRE LORDE — THE ETERNAL QUESTION
By Kalamu ya Salaam During the tumult of the seventies, in publications such as The Black Scholar and black World, I engaged with and eventually...
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The difference between poetry…
A Collective Love Poem by The Audre Lorde Project The . difference between poetry and...
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For the Love of Freedom: Writing, Radical Praxis and the Transformative Power of a Slave’s Words
By Ernest L. Gibson, III When Frederick Douglass wrote “My feet have been so cracked with the frost, that the pen with which I am writing...
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Love letter to white people
By Joe Osmundson White people, I love you. I really do. Not because I am a white person myself. This is not a story of...
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Black Feminist and Dominican: How Black Male Writers Shape My Practice
By Rosa Cabrera When the door opened, my grandmother’s arms wound lightly around my torso as she kissed the air beside my cheek, missing the...
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Lessons on What It Must Be, Not What It Could: Growing Up Black and Boy in America
By Hashim Pipkin At age twelve, before I had one full year of formal schooling, I had a notion as to what life meant that...
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In Search of our Brothers’ Gardens: Considering Literary Black Masculinities in the 21st Century
By Lisa Guerrero James Baldwin brought me here. Not just here to this meditation, but here to this place in my life as a scholar. ...
