![]() ![]() In the story of Baldwin’s crucible, Glaude suggests, we can find hope and guidance through our own after times, of shattered promises and white retrenchment. But from that journey, Baldwin emerged with a sense of renewed purpose about the necessity of pushing forward in the face of disillusionment and despair. ![]() In these years, spanning from the publication of T he Fire Next Time in 1963 to that of No Name in the Street in 1972, Baldwin transformed into a more overtly political writer, a change that came at great professional and personal cost. Glaude, Jr., we are in the after times- when the Black Lives Matter movement gave voice for change in America and was challenged and violently suppressed- demonstrating another failure of this country to face racial justice.įor James Baldwin, these after times came in the wake of the civil rights movement, when a similar national confrontation with the truth was answered with the murders of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. ![]() You can purchase a copy of BEGIN AGAIN through the MoAD online bookstoreĪccording to Professor Eddie S. and writer Jewelle Gomez about Glaude's recent book BEGIN AGAIN: James Baldwin's America and its Urgent Lessons For Our Own ![]() Mechanics' Institute and Museum of the African Diaspora presentĪ conversation with scholar Eddie S. ![]()
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