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Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of theAfro-American Studies Department, delivered themain address. Gates concentrated on the career ofthe essayist and novelist James Baldwin. Accordingto Gates, Baldwin's work has continued relevanceto the issues of race relations King dealt with...
...students who say to me, "I only read black writers." And what they really mean is they are reading people like Don L. Lee and Louis Farrakhan. I say, Have you ever read any Jean-Paul Sartre? Have you ever read any Ralph Ellison or Albert Murray or James Baldwin? Nope. But they read Don L. Lee's tract on what a black man should be, as though this is different from what any man should be. And so there's this sort of intellectual segregation that I think is absolutely a death knell for our future...
There's at least one group of Americans interested in the 1992 presidential race. A number of Hollywood artists have established a West Coast chapter of The Creative Coalition, the New York-based lobbying committee established in 1989 by actors ALEC BALDWIN (The Hunt for Red October) and RON SILVER (Reversal of Fortune). TCC/West is meeting regularly to map out a public affairs strategy and arrange a televised debate on campaign reform. Also in the talking stage is a series of professionally produced half-hour programs hosted by various stars that will analyze political advertising and explain how it often...
Romare Bearden (1912-88) was one of the finest collagists of the 20th century and the most distinguished black visual artist America has so far produced: the only one, perhaps, who rivaled in his own time and field the achievements of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin, Alvin Ailey and Arthur Mitchell, Earl Hines and Duke Ellington in theirs. His retrospective at the Studio Museum in Harlem is an exhilarating show marred by a sloppy catalog. This will not matter too much to the audience the exhibition will acquire as it moves around the museums of America, ending...
...wonderful thing happens when you encounter images of your cultural self in a book at an early age. That happened to me at 14 when an Episcopal priest gave me James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time. I felt like Baldwin was naming me in a way that I didn't even know I needed to be named. It changed my life. That's where I first got the inkling that I might want to be a scholar, to serve my people through print. How could anybody deny -- left, right or center -- the importance of that experience in shaping...