Glaude sits back from a safe distance on our MSNBC screens, away from Baldwin’s edginess while constantly acknowledging it. Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own.Eddie S. Glaude Jr.New York: Crown.239 pp. $27. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs In America once upon a time in the 20th century, there were…
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by ANDREW STEWART At the outset, it is impossible to deny the vital role that the volume A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marrable’s Malcolm X (2012, Black Classics Press), edited by Drs. Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs, played in the formation of this article. In 2011, Manning Marable, a legendary Marxian African American Studies scholar at…
Read moreFahrenheit 11/9 Asks “What The Fuck Happened!?”
The problem with films like those we keep getting from Michael Moore is that they continue what is a very consistent theme found in popular liberal media; they are mostly good documentaries that do what they are intended to emotionally but which ultimately cannot break analytically from their base liberal moorings. Fahrenheit 11/9 is more of…
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