Tag: James Baldwin

  • Nation & World

    How white supremacy became part of nation’s fabric

    Historian Donald Yacovone chronicles racist values, historical falsehoods woven through textbooks in his new book.

    14 minutes
    Donald Yacovone
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    Lessons from James Baldwin on betrayal and hope

    Princeton’s Eddie Glaude and Harvard Professor Cornel West discuss Glaude’s “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own,” and the hope Baldwin saw for change.

    5 minutes
    James Baldwin.
  • Nation & World

    Writing Black lives

    “Writing Black Lives,” a Radcliffe talk by three biographers that explored how the lives and work of three influential Americans — federal judge and activist Constance Baker Motley, playwright Lorraine Hansberry, and author James Baldwin — helped shape and are still shaping conversations around black politics, community, identity, and life.

    5 minutes
    Robert Reid-Pharr, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Imani Perry.
  • Nation & World

    Picturing vision and justice

    A meeting of experts and scholars from Harvard and beyond organized by assistant professor Sarah Lewis will “consider the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice.”

    13 minutes
    Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies Sarah Lewis
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    Picturing Harvard — and America

    The first exhibit of the Arts Wing in the Smith Campus Center conveys what Harvard and the larger American community is and can be in terms of its makeup.

    3 minutes
    Portraits at the exhibit.
  • Nation & World

    Taking it all personally

    Now through Dec. 30 at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, a series of photos shines a light on the America that author and social critic James Baldwin was responding to with his words. “Time is Now: Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin’s America” tracks the social unrest that drove his writing and reflect…

    5 minutes
    Vietnam War protesters march in Chicago in 1968 holding sign reading "Unite or perish."
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    New faculty: Robert Reid-Pharr

    Q&A with Robert Reid-Pharr as part of a series introducing new faculty members.

    4 minutes
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    A luminous vision for Harvard Yard

    Artist Teresita Fernández discusses the installation she created for Harvard Yard, “Autumn (… Nothing Personal).”

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A transition for Transition

    Transition, a magazine published by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, has been published in Africa for the first time in nearly three decades.

    3 minutes
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    Unsettled by the bomb

    A historian’s new book outlines the little-known role of black Americans in international campaigns to ban nuclear weapons.

    5 minutes
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    A close glimpse of James Baldwin

    Houghton Library recently acquired its 3,000th American item, the typescript of an unproduced James Baldwin play — a rich tangle of the author’s obsessions in need of a scholar’s clarifying touch.

    6 minutes
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    Close reading

    Faculty members share highlights from the reading life.

    10 minutes