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Topic: James Baldwin

People hold up signs during a rally against "critical race theory" (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia on June 12, 2021. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Attack on CRT: New weapon, old war

Chauncey DeVega
Watchmen (Mark Hill/HBO)

"Watchmen" trolls heroic whiteness

Melanie McFarland
KiKi Layne as Tish and Stephan James as Fonny in "If Beale Street Could Talk" (Tatum Mangus/Annapurna Pictures)

Salon talks "If Beale Street Could Talk"

D. Watkins
"Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry" by Imani Perry (Beacon Press)

Lorraine Hansberry, American radical

Imani Perry
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LeBron James; Donald Trump; Don Lemon (AP/Getty/Salon)

James Baldwin presaged Trump's rise

Chauncey DeVega
Michael Eric Dyson (Getty/Paras Griffin)

Michael Eric Dyson: Trump as whiteness

Chauncey DeVega
Stefan Konarske and August Diehl in "The Young Karl Marx" (Berlin International Film Festival/Kris Dewitte)

"The Young Karl Marx" makes Marx real

Rachel Leah
American Masters: Lorraine Hansberry (Courtesy of David Attie)

Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart

Melanie McFarland
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(WikiMedia/AP/Jason DeCrow)

James Baldwin, godfather muse

William J. Maxwell
Jeff Sessions; James Baldwin in "I Am Not Your Negro" (Getty/Alex Wong/Magnolia Pictures)

Baldwin even more relevant now

Sophia A. McClennen
James Baldwin in "I am not your negro" (Magnolia Pictures/Dan Budnik)

James Baldwin's history lesson

Andrew O'Hehir
James Baldwin (Getty/Townsend)

A dark vision realized

Tony Bartelme
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James Baldwin; Donald Trump (Getty/Jenkins/Chip Somodevilla/Photo montage by Salon)

Year of the big payback

Chauncey DeVega
(AP/Evan Agostini)

Chris Rock: Perfect Oscar host

Sonia Saraiya

LeRon Barton - The Good Men Project
James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates (AP/Dave Pickoff/Random House/Nina Subin)

Coates' brilliant predecessor

Amy Kittelstrom
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Ta-Nehisi Coates (C-Span)

Grand theory of anti-blackness

mensah demary
William F. Buckley, Jr. (AP)

Buckley's vile race arguments

Kevin M. Schultz
(Penguin/Stanley Staniski/Wikimedia)

The threat to America's soul

Laura Miller

Black America's everyday truth

Ian Blair
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Ted Thompson (tedthompson.net/Carrie McClean)

Ask a debut novelist!

Ted Thompson
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