"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin
Monday, February 15 at Noon
a program celebrating the author he calls 鈥減otent and polemical.鈥�
Christopher Jackson reads an excerpt from Baldwin鈥檚 famous letter The Fire Next Time: in 鈥淢y Dungeon Shook,鈥� he addresses internalized racism.
Next, Anthony Rapp performs an excerpt from Giovanni's Room, in which an expat comes to terms with his sexuality and loneliness in Paris; and Baldwin contemplates The Great Migration in his novel Go Tell It On The Mountain. We hear an excerpt performed by Charlayne Woodard.