Air Date: 8-17-2024
James Baldwin's 100th birthday passed by recently and we're using the occasion to draw on his moral clarity and eloquence while we assess the state of race in America
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KEY POINTS
KP 1: Celebrating James Baldwin's 100th Birthday - 1A - Air Date 7-30-24
KP 2: James Baldwin's Fire - Throughline - Air Date 9-17-20
KP 5: Truth, Privilege, and James Baldwin - Woke AF Daily - Air Date 10-3-23
KP 6: Celebrating James Baldwin's 100th Birthday Part 2 - 1A - Air Date 7-30-24
(49:08) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On the need for national self-reflection
DEEPER DIVES
(56:50) SECTION A - BALDWIN THE WRITER
A2: Celebrating James Baldwin's 100th Birthday Part 3 - 1A - Air Date 7-30-24
(1:08:50) SECTION B - RACE IN AMERICA
B1: Right Wingers Go FULL RACIST About Civil Rights - The Majority Report - Air Date 4-21-24
B3: Crowder Spews UNHINGED Racism During Harris ‘Comedy’ Bit - The Majority Report - Air Date7-31-24
B4: James Baldwin's Fire Part 2 - Throughline - Air Date 9-17-20
(1:35:59) SECTION C - THE WHITE LIE
C1: Truth, Privilege, and James Baldwin Part 2 - Woke AF Daily - Air Date 10-3-23
C2: Right Wingers Go FULL RACIST About Civil Rights Part 2 - The Majority Report - Air Date 4-21-24
C4: James Baldwin's Fire Part 3 - Throughline - Air Date 9-17-20
(2:00:40) SECTION D - GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions)
SHOW IMAGE:
Description: Portrait of author and civil rights activist James Baldwin, an African American man, leaning against a tree with arms folded in a park and smiling, looking away from the camera.
Credit: “James Baldwin taken in Hyde Park London” by Allan Warren, Wikimedia Commons | License: CC BY-SA 3.0 | Changes: Cropped
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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