![]() The struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the presidency of Donald Trump, a president whose time in the White House represents the latest failure of America to face the lies it tells itself about race.įor James Baldwin, a similar attempt to force a confrontation with the truth of America's racism came in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement, and was answered with the murders of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. ![]() If one refuses abdication, one begins again.' - James Baldwin Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. ![]() A Washington Post Notable Work of Non-Fiction 2020Ī searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment, and imagine a new future into being ![]()
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