Rage Plus Time Equals Prophecy: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’
James Baldwin’s requiem for three Civil Rights martyrs is also a letter addressed to future America and its “vast, unthinking, cruel white majority.”
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James Baldwin’s Resounding Words in ‘I Am Not Your Negro’
As James Baldwin reminds us, “History is not the past, it is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.”
Martin Luther King Jr. As Tactician in Ava DuVernay’s ‘Selma’
The Martin Luther King Jr. in Ava DuVernay’s ‘Selma is a preacher of vision, but he’s also a tactician willing to let blood be shed to advance the righteous cause.