James Baldwin
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53 years ago last Sunday, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and mortally wounded as he stood on the second-floor balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Millions upon millions around the world lost a great hero later that night, when he died. April 4, 1968 happened to…
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The Journey Towards a Healthy White Identity
Today, we are talking about the social identity of white people in America and how it can be lived in a way that promotes healing and justice. But since both race and class factor into this—since both intersect and mutually reinforce each other—we must talk about middle-class identity in America also. We must talk about…
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I’m reading James Baldwin these days. James Baldwin was an essayist, playwright, novelist and a voice of the American civil rights movement known for works including Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, and The Fire Next Time. Let’s spend a moment with that last work—The Fire Next Time. It was published in…
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