i can't think straight if we're in a class talking about james baldwin's work, if a white quotes james i what if a white person quotes james baldwin in. right. because i want to i want to grant what i feel like is not being granted to the student with no context for how they come to the sentence or the word. actually, we are coming at this from different places. i understand the conventional sort of understanding that professors have about this generation of students being less resilient. and i don't buy it first of all, we know what you know, being a tough guy, if we want to call james meredith a tough guy with his republican aides, let's talk about the way he was a tough guy. i'm not i apologize. i don't apologize be he can be a tough guy, professor kennedy. but but but but the question is i think you've answered it. should we ask black students 50 years, 60 years later, to be as publicly or privately tough as we see some of our black quote unquote heroes being when we know that performance of toughness twitter insides apart completely toward our inside support. so when i see a stude

james baldwin is just a genius. he deserves to be quoted, incited everywhere at all times, because that's what he is. that's who he is. but there's a way that his influence has shaped converse nation. it shaped narrative. i think part of it is that he's a compelling figure. i think part of it is that he's written across such a wide range of genres. part of it is it as a black queer male, he at a moment where people were talking about intersection and or politics, the intersection of leadership, i think he makes for a very powerful and convenient figure and some of it is people are quoting him out of context and some of it is people don't really fully appreciate what was messaging. and sometimes they're quoting him. does it to be saying the exact opposite of what he's actually saying? and so for me, the idea of him as influencer is somewhat fascinating because when we think of the influencer, we think of the modern person we think of. and it's also interesting, think about what it means to be an influencer. that was

there's the james baldwin review. there are scholars who have been kind of mining his work for generations and that has kind of bubbled up and then there are the movements black lives matter reaching for resources to kind of to to to to to offer ways of accounting for how they were mobilizing how they were queering movement struggle in some ways and so baldwin was everywhere in the context of black lives matter. and so i think there's a a combination of work, of work in the academy and in the streets. and then there's the fact we're just catching up to it because he was he was spying much. he was grappling at the end. his life was what we are encountering now in so many ways. so i think this the convergence of those two things as a short answer. as the short answer, i'll just quickly. so i remember when we had that season where we were watching black death over and over again, and you just turned on you turned on the computer. you turn on the television it actually and made it infuriate me and off. and now there are w

the final chapter i called james baldwin, the great, great james baldwin who said that not everythingothing that's not face can be healed. amy: dr. gabor matÉ, the acclaimed canadian physician and author with his son daniel of the new book "the myth of normal: trauma illness, healing in a toxic culture." dr. matÉ will be appearing tonight in new york city at the 92nd street y. and that does it for our show. to see all dr. matÉ, you can go to democracynow.org. happy belated birthday to sam. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!]

james baldwin says the problems around his home in east oakland or that young people are facing shootings, poverty, a lack of playgrounds, few youth programs and resources, things that could help them stay away from guns and gangs. he knows he spent 13. years in prison on gang charges to sell drugs. i used to ride around with guns. i used to do all that. he says his mission now is putting young people on a different path to get you know where it's a cell with your name on it. police say the school shooting in east oakland wednesday might be gang related at castle mountain high school at a public families in action forum thursday night candidates for school board and mayor spoke out about the issues to students , parents, teachers and community members who want to change. it breaks my heart, dad, there's so much advance here in oakland, i would like to see there to be more safety. is there a metal detector? you know for, you know kids who are going to school. some say they want concrete answers from city officials and police who will stay and have community connections. we have a lot of ro

we knew all along, and if it wasn't for at toni morrison's and alice walker and the james baldwin and the these and cubes and the delta shoals and and the q-tips, we wouldn't have known it. so for me that that is those the works for me that that illustrated the complexity of the black experience merely by showing me that there was complex that you know you know something the idea a soul album is so far removed from an n.w.a. album, but it says something that was obsessed with both of them equally, because i, i just never that sort of complexity was something that was never taught to me and something that, you know, culture and african-american culture taught me. and it continues to, you know, that spills over in my work. i think there's a different question. thank so much that is really powerful mean i'm learning i about zora neale hurston in the way in which she had the same sort of pushback with using certain language within her work you know down to my family living room growing up where my mom dad and i often had those conversations of, you know, using patois and saying things, li

only to our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as, a window into the past, but, it is in james baldwin. and that is nearly to the past and that is what they do the lecture itself was inspired by students in virginia. how the labor of enslaved people help to create that institution doctor mcguinness is the cultural historian and particularly the politics she is an award-winning author, coauthor, and editor of six books slaves a winning sale, abolitionist art, in the american slave trade. and, educated in tyranny, and jefferson's university, for which he won the charles c l drench books prize from the smithsonian american art museum. doctor mcinnis, receiving her b. a. at the university of virginia and, attended yale university, where she earned a ph. d. in art history. she is both an academic, and a public scholar. she is a lecturer, adviser, a curator at numerous art museums, and of course, the sixth president of stony brook university. this mantra to steve, president mcinnis. >> good morning. thank you so much professor for letting me have the opportunity to speak with your class toda

james baldwin says the problems around his home in east oakland are that young people are facing shootings, poverty, a lack of playgrounds, few youth programs and resources, things that could help them stay away from guns and gangs. he knows he spent 13 years in prison on gang charges drugs. i used to ride around with guns. i used to do all that. he says his mission now is putting young people on a different path to get you know where it's a cell with your name on it. police say the school shooting in east oakland wednesday might be gang related at castle mountain high school at a public families in action forum thursday night candidates for school board and mayor spoke out about the issues to students , parents, teachers and community members who want to change student. i feel sad. and it breaks my heart that there's so much violence here in oakland. i would like to see there to be more safety. is there a metal detector? you know for, you know kids who are going to school. they want concrete answers from city officials and police who will stay and have community connections. i worry. we d

but also how they affect the present or in the words of james baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. the research and for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasn't adequately representing how the labor of enslaved people helped to create that institution. dr. mcginnis is a renowned scholar and cultural cultural historian of the relationship between art and politics in the colonial and antebellum south particularly the politics of slavery. she's an award-winning author co-author and editor of six books including two books on this topic slaves waiting for sale abolitionist art and the american slave trade and educated in tyranny slavery at thomas jefferson's university. which for which she won? the she was awarded the chelsea eldridge book prize from the smithsonian american art museum? dr. mcginnis received her ba at the university of virginia, and she attended yale university where she earned a phd in art history. she is both an academic a

james baldwin once wrote, history is not the past, sorry, history is not the past, it is the present. we carry our history with us. we are our history. first i want to thank pete and the former members of inviting me to say a few words about "the first congress" and say it here in a wonderful space which as a new yorker i'm familiar with and always admired but this is called federal hall euphemistically because it wasn't federal hall but it's the site of federal hall and is an immensely rich site of ritalin of importance in american history. so i rarely use this kind of term but as close to a sacred site, a political sacred site at any rate that this country has. we're starting on the site where the first congress met, james madison and countless other founders participated in debates here, fought each other here. george washington, of course, not a member of congress, but obviously was here many times, usually rather grumpily. and inarguably, i think, it's one of the most significant historical sites in the united states. the house of representatives met approximate where we are toni

that's what james baldwin, the namesake for this panel, it's about. we have to love or black people no matter who they. our we gotta be at it, in my opinion. >> ibram, do you want to jump in on the question? kevin? >> i think given and start. the one thing i would say is, for me, it's health. you know, according to david williams a scholar, don't back people die prematurely per day because of health disparities. and then those of us who have lived, you know recent evidence is showing that racism itself, you know it's a stressor. and so, for me, you know, our physical and mental health, you know, it's a primary issue. and even what given stated, you know, whether we love ourselves, or hate ourselves, that's a mental health issue. >> yeah. >> abraham has a question for you, doctor kendi. how do you do with teaching young blacks not to be a victim of this cultural racism that we see in our society? ? >> i think that's one of the reasons why i have moved to write more for children and four kids for kids is if we can provide a younger black kids with a lit

that's what james baldwin, the namesake for this panel was about.we have to love all black people no matter who they are. that's where we got to be. it in my opinion. ibram, do you want to jump in on the question or. kevin i think i don't. i mean, i think kevin answered it. i think one thing i would say is that for me, it's health. you know 200. according to david, a scholar, public health, you know, 200 black people died prematurely per day because of because health disparities and then those of us who you know recent evidence is showing that itself you you know is a stressor. and so for me our you know, our health, our physical and mental health, you know, is is a is a primary. and even what i think kevin stated, you know, we love ourselves or hate ourselves, that's that's a mental health issue. yeah. yeah. trina abraham has a question. you, dr. kennedy, let's do that first. how do you deal with teaching younger blacks not to be a victim of this intercultural racism that we see in society, in our communities? i think that of the reasons why i've m

that's what james baldwin, the namesake for this panel was about.we have to love all black people no matter who they are. that's where we got to be. it in my opinion. ibram, do you want to jump in on the question or. kevin i think i don't. i mean, i think kevin answered it. i think one thing i would say is that for me, it's health. you know 200. according to david, a scholar, public health, you know, 200 black people died prematurely per day because of because health disparities and then those of us who you know recent evidence is showing that itself you you know is a stressor. and so for me our you know, our health, our physical and mental health, you know, is is a is a primary. and even what i think kevin stated, you know, we love ourselves or hate ourselves, that's that's a mental health issue. yeah. yeah. trina abraham has a question. you, dr. kennedy, let's do that first. how do you deal with teaching younger blacks not to be a victim of this intercultural racism that we see in society, in our communities? i think that of the reasons why i've m