June 2, 2020
Armed. With white supremacy. Systemic whiteness is the deadliest of weapons. It is the first defense. It is absolute protection...
Conversations
April 20, 2016
Far from embracing nonviolence as a moral imperative, Mark and Paul Engler argue for its strategic application in political conflict for a...
Reviews
August 31, 2015
“This isn’t a crime scene; this is a conflict.” Standing out as one of the most powerful plays in this year’s New York International Fringe...
blog
July 31, 2015
Two years ago, I was riding my bike through Prospect Park in Brooklyn. As I was picking up speed on the downhill slope, a police car...
blog
December 10, 2014
The protests that followed the non-indictments of the racist, murderous police officers in the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases have...
videos
August 21, 2014
A 1969 conversation with writer James Baldwin and Dick Gregory in London about the black experience in America and how it relates to the...
blog
August 6, 2014
On February 18th, 1965 James Baldwin debated against William Buckley in a historical debate at the Cambridge Union on the motion "Has the...
blog
August 6, 2014
James Baldwin often journeyed to Turkey to escape the pressures of 1960's America, where his status as both black and gay, in combination...
blog
August 5, 2014
The Amen Corner (1954; Dial Press) Another Country (1962; Dial Press) If Beale Street Could Talk (1974; Dial Press) Blues for Mister...