James Baldwin: On Fire

Guardian.

 Nice pic!

The line; 'His work fell foul of civil-rights-era binary racial and sexual politics' is student guff though.

The film, I Am Not Your Negro, opens the Human Rights Watch film festival in London on 9th March.

Oscars: I Am Not Your Negro

Here is the website.

And here is the trailer.

Released in the US February 3rd - not sure about the UK.

Great to see this and Moonlight nominated.

James Baldwin: Amen

No, I don’t feel death coming.
I feel death going:
having thrown up his hands,
for the moment.

I feel like I know him
better than I did.
Those arms held me,
for a while,
and, when we meet again,
there will be that secret knowledge
between us.

A lost poem from Jimmy's Blues, published today.