#NewYorker: The Lives and Loves of #JamesBaldwin #NewYorker@100

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/baldwin-a-love-story-nicholas-boggs-book-review

ABOUT THE ARTICLE AUTHOR/BOOK REVIEWER:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Menand

Since the reviewer seems to know more than the biographer, I listened to this twice!!! LOL!!!!

THE NEW BOOK REVIEWED:

ABOUT THE BOOK’S AUTHOR:

https://www.whiting.org/content/nicholas-boggs-0

By the way, this one @NewYorker #NewYorker book review is better than #EddieGlaude’s entire Baldwin book.

#ArtSpiegelman: Disaster is My Muse | Official Trailer | #PBS #PBSAmericanMasters #AmericanMasters #Maus

April 15th. Me. there.

Dr. #JaredBall and I Discuss Jonathan Eig’s “Martin Luther King, A Life” On #BlackPowerMedia

Hands-down, one of our better public discussions, on #BlackPowerMedia or anywhere.

Correcting the now-typical goof I make when I talk too long 🙂 : I think it’s more accurate to say that Mahatma Gandhi was a supporter of African independence in his later years, not a Pan-Africanist per se.

The History Writer, The American Storyteller, The PBS Narrator

I think he might have been the first white American historian I ever paid attention to back in the day when he used to host PBS’ American Experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McCullough#Books