James baldwin articles
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James Baldwin Wrote About 'Paradox of Education'?
The author purportedly argued "that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."
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James Baldwin Wrote About Reasons Those in Power Dismiss Protests by Black People?
A viral post said this quote appeared in the book "Noboby Knows My Name," published in 1961.
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‘He craved an Oscar’: James Baldwin’s long campaign to crack Hollywood
He pitched slave-ship dramas to Ingmar Bergman, cast Marlon Brando as a bisexual man and wrote a Malcolm X screenplay that horrified the FBI. Why was this cinephile spurned by Hollywood?It’s fair to say James Baldwin wasn’t a fan of The Exorcist. “It has absolutely nothing going for it,” he wrote in his 1976 memoir-meets-criticism collection The Devil Finds Work. “Except Satan, who is certainly the star.” William Friedkin’s 1973 horror hit about a possessed schoolgirl might have caused havoc in...