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A New Archive Shows Where to Stream Hundreds of Classic Black Films

Avatar photo by Cydnii Wilde Harris November 16, 2021November 17, 2021

Hyperallergic speaks to Maya Cade, creator of the Black Film Archive, about showcasing an “abundance of Blackness across time.”

Posted inArt

An Intimate Look at James Baldwin and His Rarely Discussed Suicide Attempts

Avatar photo by Allison Conner May 31, 2021June 2, 2021

Harmony Holiday wants to show “the Baldwin who was baffled and befuddled and wounded and perfectly real.”

Posted inMusic

Listening to the Joy in James Baldwin’s Record Collection

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia December 18, 2020August 2, 2022

Curator Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi hopes to rouse a new generation of writers with “Chez Baldwin,” a 32-hour-long Spotify playlist based on Baldwin’s vinyl record collection.

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Barry Jenkins’s Tender Adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk

by Monica Castillo January 8, 2019January 9, 2019

Jenkins brings a visual richness to the story, accentuating the emotional undertones of Baldwin’s words.

Posted inArt

A Collaborative Photobook by Richard Avedon and James Baldwin

by Elena Goukassian January 9, 2018March 4, 2018

Avedon and Baldwin’s 1964 photobook, with a new introduction by Hilton Als, resonates profoundly today.

Posted inArt

I Am Not Your Negress: On Violence and American Necrophilia

by Zandria Robinson April 7, 2017April 9, 2017

I Am Not Your Negro is a spectacularly and explicitly violent film, and yet it’s been described as having “implied” violence.

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A James Baldwin Documentary Raises Questions About America that May Never Be Answered

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney March 2, 2017March 1, 2017

Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro delivers brutally honest polemics about white America from James Baldwin.

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A Documentary Envisions a Book James Baldwin Never Finished

by Siddhartha Mitter February 3, 2017February 3, 2017

Directed by Raoul Peck, I Am Not Your Negro is montage and meditation, a dialogue between the archive and the present.

Posted inNews

James Baldwin’s Longtime Home in Southern France Faces Demolition

by Joseph Nechvatal March 23, 2016March 31, 2016

The acclaimed writer James Baldwin moved from New York to Paris in 1948 and then to Saint-Paul de Vence in the south of France, where he eventually died with his longtime lover, the obscure Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger, at his side.

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Brooklyn’s Own Briar Patch: A Funk Opera Takes On Gentrification

by Alexis Clements January 22, 2015

Gentrification has been the subject of countless plays and performances in New York, but the number of productions taking it on seems to have increased dramatically in recent years.

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Midcentury Expressionist Drama, Novelized

by Joseph Nechvatal September 10, 2014September 10, 2014

PARIS — I recently met in my studio the writer Jake Lamar, a New York ex-pat living in Paris, and spoke to him about his new novel, Postérité (The original English title is “Posthumous”), that will be published today in French by Rivages.

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The Elephant in Our Room

by Aram Saroyan July 18, 2014July 22, 2014

LOS ANGELES — A central insight of James Baldwin’s writing had to do with the way racism diminished the racist as much or more than his victim.

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