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Black History Year
"james baldwin" Discussed on Black History Year
"To destroy the saint family. Franklin is faced with losing everyone he loves and everything he's built. Getting through it will mean outmaneuvering multiple law enforcement agencies, as well as avoiding the LAPD's corrupt crash units. John singleton's visionary series comes to an epic conclusion. FX's snowfall, the final season, all new, Wednesdays on FX, stream on Hulu. Tension hung in the air between the two men like an old wet quote on a clothesline. On one side, stood James Baldwin. On the other, a white man who was about to have a debate, he would never forget. This is two minute black history. What you didn't learn in school. One thing about James Baldwin was that he never minced words. He surely didn't hold back when he was challenged to discuss the so called American Dream during a 1965 debate. Who was his challenger? William F Buckley. One of the most problematic white men in America. This moderate. Thought Baldwin was beneath him and expect it to rip the black writer activists who shreds. Bless his heart. That's not how it turned out. Baldwin reminded the audience that our people built this country for free. And weren't much better off than we were during enslavement due to racial bias. A scathing indictment of the American Dream. The audience gave Baldwin a standing ovation. Buckley, he gave a feeble reply about Baldwin playing the victim. He claimed black people needed to do better to achieve more, and that racism wasn't an issue. Even though at the time, the country was knee deep in the civil rights movement. The crowd was not pleased and voted down his words, giving Baldwin the victory in the debate. As Baldwin's candid assessment of the American Dream shows white folks have to be pushed to acknowledge basic truths. After all, he won the debate, but 50 plus years later, we still have the same problems. We must be open and honest about the anti black racism still thriving in this country. In order to move towards the future, you've got to look to the past. This has been two minute black history, a podcast from push black..
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
The Life and Times of Sammy Davis Jr
"Now, to go back to knowing what all there is to know about Sammy, he was born in Harlem, 1925 at the age of three, he went on the road with his father, and they appeared with a man they called the boy's uncle. They called his wet and sky will masten, Sami's uncle. And they developed the will mast and trio. And since they grew up in a very segregated world of the black vaudeville circuit without any formal education and they had to overcome racism of white audiences, Jamie Davis knew all along that he had no choice but to succeed. He had to. And again, James Baldwin, who sat me down a couple of times and told me great stories, he said that Sammy Davis told him at one point he had to decide between greatness and madness. And he chose greatness. He was very smart. He was one of the smartest people to perform ever. Probably a entertainment genius, really. He understood show business just completely. He never stopped studying it. But since he was on tour from the age of three, it took its toll. He never learned to write, he was a really big reader, he read constantly during his conversion to Judaism after the big 1954 car accident that cost him his left eye. One of his William Morris agents left the agency to become Davis business partner, sign marsh. And to the day he died, he could sign his name, but he could not write. That's why he never personalized autographs to anyone. Because he couldn't spell people's names. And he was embarrassed of it. But he went through some shit in the army Sammy Davis, he'd been drafted into the army to fight, and he did, but he fought with southerners in southwestern and they got their kicks fucking around with them and needling them. And he said he got his ass kicked every couple of days when he was just in the army. His nose was broken, countless times, which you can plainly see that. Permanently flattened, they used to give him beer to drink before they poured half out and pissed in the rest of it. Just disgusting stuff. And he finally was assigned to special services where he performed in camp shows around the country. And he just loved to make audiences laugh and have a good night out. That's what broke down the barriers eventually between the two sides.
WABE 90.1 FM
"james baldwin" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"She makes it come alive for you So that when I experienced it I simultaneously was experiencing my life at the Islamic Republic Can I ask you about Baldwin You were dazzled by James Baldwin I'm absolutely an unconditionally in love with Baldwin He comes from a place of confidence The uniqueness of Baldwin is that through appropriating the English language and English culture he interpreted it in his own unique way It was by no means uncritical but at the same time he believed that there is this realm of culture that is not just political but existential And that we all as human beings share this common humanity in the best and the worst sense of the word His first novel was about an African American boy but he said that it was only a gateway to becoming a universal writer The second novel he wrote his publisher told him don't publish it because it was about a white American man who was also gay and they said look you're black You have a niche here Don't give it up And he said I told them go something yourself and I published in London I empathize with that When I came here some people told me that you are a woman and you come from an Islamic majority country So you can talk about those things only And I said you talk about those things I want to talk about dead white males because literature is always always about others Whether we like those others or dislike them we write about them and we read about them And if we believe in diversity genuinely And if we believe in respect for the other we do not confine ourselves to just ourselves Come out of yourself and join the other That is the message of great novels Her book read dangerously the subversive power of literature in troubled times Thank you so much for being with us.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah: Ears Edition
"james baldwin" Discussed on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah: Ears Edition
"Yang and jimmy lee jackson who saw so many of his young friends from howard and fisk their eyes darken. So he he wanted to write about all of those who did not survive in those who survived but who are broken but he needed the space. You know when. I when. I was in heidelberg. I you know i was in heidelberg for an hour and i saw please. Four white police officers with their knees in the back of a black man who was screaming at the top of his lungs help. I wasn't in heidelberg for an hour but the thing is that i didn't have to comment on it. I didn't have to account for it right. In some ways. I could go back to my flat and breathe. It was like a moment when i was way out of the country. I could exhale you know. Because i wasn't there black problem you know. I was walking around with my american passport right right. I gave lectures at the university of the north. When i was there i wasn't there. You know what. I mean i. I looked like folk but it wasn't. I wasn't how can i put it. I wasn't there negro and so you get the space to breathe and so baldwin would leave the country in order to think more carefully about it because when you're here you have to navigate so much of this nonsense and he likes america in one thousand nine hundred forty eight because he said if i don't get out of this country i'm either gonna kill somebody or i'm going to be killed so right here on route one right here. In princeton new jersey lawrenceville our waitress refused to serve any a glass at her head and bro shattered the glass behind her and then had to run for his life he knew the rage and anger was consuming him. He was becoming his stepfather so when he chose paris he had the space to actually create himself to will himself into being a writer. Sometimes it's all we need is the space to breathe so that we can be man. What is the one thing you hope that they will get from this. If somebody says to you profess why would. I want to read this book. What is the one thing. Hope to give them in. This new analysis of boland's life at the heart of it is the through line that we have to tell the truth and be a courageous enough to tell the truth and once we tell the truth about what we've done in who we are. Then we could free ourselves into imagining a different world imagining ourselves differently were shackled by categories were shackled by our lives were trapped in this fantasy. You know america thinks of itself as as never never land is always you know. We're full of lost boys and loss girls. We don't want to be responsible and held accountable for anything so we have to tell the truth and here. We are in a moment of moral reckoning or the country can be otherwise but every single time we try to give birth to a new nation. The umbilical cord of white supremacy is wrapped around its neck. So we have to tell truth. We have to be truthful and be really responsible midwives so that we can give birth. Finally to a new country that is generally multiracial democracy. Our history says. We're not going to do very well. But i have faith because wherever human beings are again we have a chance. There is always hope professor claude. Thank you so much for joining us on the show thank you. I appreciate the daily show. With trevor noah ears addition subscribe to the daily show on youtube for exclusive content and stream full episodes anytime on paramount. Plus.
Good For You
"james baldwin" Discussed on Good For You
"One is a great example where okay you have a structure and a system that set up that excludes people human beings just in general white people to what straight white guys well. It's exclusionary because like a union is a good example which is supposed to be a form of solidarity for good reason but at the same time when you have that pool. And there's only so much work then. It becomes exclusion and to a certain point and traditionally that exclusion has kept out lots of different human beings but most specifically women and other marginalized people. So how do you break through those structures and through systems. It's going to be messy and difficult and it's going to take time and then the question becomes well how much time on the fuck because the waiting for a long. That's obviously a lotta people say and rightfully so which is how much time do you let the james baldwin quote like how much time you fucking need like at a certain point we're gonna come in and burnt down and that's what we're seeing and i believe that the culture and the community again. Maybe this is just maybe too selfish. But i think our shit is better because of it because we are whether we were forced into it or not we are now in a position where we we have to listen to other points of view and then when you have seven or eight different points of view of really funny really talented people together. That's just automatically going to make your ship better. So why not. Why aren't you embracing that. I don't understand. i think there's a fear of losing out. If i add someone that's not like the main quality. What comedy for me like when i like for years and years. Stand up comedy. I would only until we got a female booker at only clubs. I would only get booked on shows. They were all women like all women show only for women because there was no way that a man they're not gonna relate to you they're going to find your funding so you only get that for so long. I think people are really scared to give well. Then whoever was booking that i mean you're the best person bookings going you're actually in a weird way you're being sexist and phobic but you're also being sexist towards the men that are coming to see the show 'cause you think all men are phobic all men don't think that someone that to me. There's a lot of. i'm just going to defend. The white man restrained quick. I will say once again and there's a lot of sexism and going like oh guys won't find that funny. No that's you guys. you're plenty. I mean all my guy friends secure. The funniest had the same thing correct. You don't and here comes.
theblerdgurl
"james baldwin" Discussed on theblerdgurl
"And then i turn on the news and seeing another person who died in the hands of police violence and then we go and turn on a comedy and people don't understand that but we don't have their biz. We have comedy. We have comedians. Like you a lot of people do. I mean look. I'm the deep south. Okay and i can tell you with great certainty. That larry the cable guy and jeff foxworthy in those guys were talking to an audience people who happen to be white. Who were trying to figure it out just like everybody else right and and there are a bunch of black comedians. That we're talking about you. Know what it was like from that side of camp everybody for moms basically the true the true raw crying genius that she was to the people she spawned like red fox richard pryor but that came from mom let's not get it twisted and her her political comedy and an her in some ways birthing and spawning even dick gregory was to show you how prolific. She was as a comedian that she could do. So many different styles and types of comedy. But when i look at those those storytellers the nina. Simone's the james baldwin's which were the people who was inspired by then there are lots of colors within the way they live their lives as artists..
The United States of Anxiety
"james baldwin" Discussed on The United States of Anxiety
"That was actor jon. Douglas thomson delivering part of frederick douglas. His famous eighteen fifty two speech. What the american slave is the fourth of july coming up. Our holiday musings turn to the future. James baldwin said america was stuck in adolescence refusing to grow up arguably big stressful moments in our history have fueled some growth though and maybe the past year and a half will foster a new era of maturing. We'll talk with a social.
Overdue
"james baldwin" Discussed on Overdue
"Is them talking about just like the women be different than men and so giovanni clearly is deeply misogynistic. Despite being i think giovanni is canonical. pretty by. he's he's says this thing at one point like he when he was in italy which is where he's from he had he. I think he was married or lease. He had like a long-term like serious relationship. And he says i don't seem to be very interested in women right now. I don't know why i used to be. Perhaps i will be again like that. Sounds pretty From the by people in my life. I do think that phases are thing happens. Folks did your interest in in certain things can wax and wane as you move through your life and you need different things. So i thought that was an interesting way for giovanni sort of misogynistic italian from the novel in the fifties sum up this element of bisexuality. That that yeah. I don't know yet highlighted that because it because it jumped out of me. I want to get to the titular room at some point and learn about the room of course. Is there anything we should know about. How hella functions in the novel. She is not in it for most of it. She is there to but she is supposedly back. So she's like the heterosexuality of damocles hanging over david's head like he's doing this thing with giovanni for a couple of months but delicate always becoming back at any moment and he's mostly just like this. This like link to the the straight. David i guess young that he the david who he thinks that he wants to be or who he thinks it would be easier for him to be. She's kind of out there. As a reminder of that and then she in the last third or so of the book she comes back in and forces the things to happen narrative later in the way that happens in levels. Yeah yeah but but really getting to know her as a character is not like super vitally important. I don't think like the the book is not as concerned with her as a as a person. I don't think yeah. I'm just looking at it a passage from that all's piece where they said that david uses her or baldwin uses hella as a kind of a kind of beard to advance the real love story. Which is one heck of a way to read it. Tell me about this room. Tell me about why. Why would this book be called jeans room. What is going on giovanni lives in a room. Embarrass all right. Podcast over. i guess you say dot giovanni has.
Overdue
"james baldwin" Discussed on Overdue
"And he doesn't he doesn't have a lot of respect for his father. His father tries to treat him as a friend which is not as a as a as a parent. I don't think that you should try to be like friends with your kids. If you have. You should have a good relationship with your kid. You should be friendly with their kids. Your kid like they feel like they can tell you stuff but the way going up to your kid and be like. Hey let's go. Let's go get a beer kid. i'm. I'm cool and i'm i'm just here to be your pal like that is That does a shortcut to trying to gain their confidence that i feel like it's a bad idea long around. This is just me switching from book thoughts to parenting thoughts on this father's day twice. Sure i want henry to feel very safe with telling me things in talking to me about things but i also acknowledged that there is going to be a. There's going to be a time in his life where he does not want to do that. Yeah that's kinda gotta get through you. Do gotta get through it when you mentioned earlier that david has a lot of this unprocessed trauma and probably needs to talk to somebody about it. There is a beat in this paris review interview. Where the interviewer. Just like ask baldwin. Have you ever been have you been through analysis and baldwin goes god no never got quote unquote adjusted and then they move on to talking about victimhood and victimization is a fascinating conversation but that like stood out to me as i am sure that has a lot to do with that. A tude toward therapy. Yeah it's interesting. I don't know as it is interesting So david how does he come to go to parolee. I don't he does. yeah like he just. He's just traveling around a lot. he's he doesn't particular he kinda wanna get. It's kind of about getting away from his dad. Kind of and step mom who doesn't really have much of a relationship with There is also in this early in this first part of the book. We is when we hear about this relationship. That david has with this boy. Joey okay and they had an early. I don't know like some experimentation. I guess like i. They were close friends. And then a briefly had a physical encounter and then david like decided to pretend it didn't happen and in pretending it didn't happen like being really really unrelentingly nasty to joey and getting different friends and not talking to him any more until eventually like joey. The moved away and they didn't see each other ever again. It says a lot about david's relationship to this part of him self is he views he talks. There's a lot of talk in this book about how about david's like manhood and okay sure way that.
Overdue
"james baldwin" Discussed on Overdue
"Black culture in harlem and black religious culture and all sorts of things. We talked about on the go teller. I'm out in episode. And so the fact that he comes out with this book that is about homosexuality and bisexuality and you know gay perry as you said but then is also like all of the characters are white what is does authored doing. who is he writing for. Yeah there's a ball gears. Now there's a quote from him that he'd from later in his life where he says quote the sexual question. The racial question have always been entwined if americans can mature on the level of racism than they have to mature on the level of sexuality. Now i think he's. I think that is a quote from somewhere in the late seventies or the eighties. And he's talking in the context of like americans maturing on race in the wake of the civil rights era. I think our current era that we're living in extreme has exposed like Some of the ways in which we still have not progressed As a society on that particular question but he but he baldwin views the issues as similar i guess in terms of like fighting for acceptance and that kind of thing he said in the paris review interview or a lot of these big quotes permits in nineteen eighty-four interview in the paris review. I thought i would seal giovanni off into a short story but it turned into giovanni is room. I certainly could not possibly have not at that point in my life handled the other great weight. The negro problem. The sexual moral light was a hard thing to deal with. I could not handle both propositions in the same book. There was no room for it. I might do it differently today but then to have a black presence in the book at that moment and in paris would have been quite beyond my powers. I'm sure people would argue that. He probably could have pulled it off if you wanted. But he's an expert on himself. There's like There's a straightforwardness to the genre of issue that this book is is that i think i don't i'm not saying i don't think baldwin could have.
Overdue
"james baldwin" Discussed on Overdue
"That's the rain in spain. It's not hella in spain in spain is mainly under an umbrella. Sure that's a good one umbrella song. I love that song on. Hella hella get through the pitch. Sorry i might have no no. I didn't by. David is in paris and he meets this This bartender named giovanni and he strikes up a passionate love affair with giovanni and things kind of go downhill from both for both of them from there. Because it is. I mean the. The novel came out in nineteen fifty six. I assume that the events of the booker happening roughly contemporaneous leila. There's nothing in there to suggest that it's happening any other way. And david is. He has a lot of conflicting feelings about his sexuality like giovanni does too but is definitely way. More into david david is into giovanni and daves go lost stuff like wrapped up in masculinity and his relationship with his dad and a lot of like past trauma that as a man in the fifties. He's spending a lot of time trying not to unpack and so that's pretty much the backdrop for giovanni through. Okay thanks for that yeah. We'll talk about james baldwin. Now i guess okay normally. This is a weird order to do things a you want. I don't know why i was too much. So i kicked it over kick the rock over to you dunk it. And then the like seventy sixers basketball player. You pass the ball to me. And i not expecting you to do that. I was expecting you to just put it into the basket and get points out of there. Yeah i didn't want the rock though. So back on episode seventy one in the year of our lord twenty fourteen. that's ridiculous. We talked about james baldwin's first novel. Go tell it on the mountain. We decided to spend five minutes to the episode talking about documentaries But i was pleased and not surprised to hear us come out strongly against both sides. Ism them in documentary filmmaking. Good in two twenty fourteen. We were doing anti vaccine. Who are pretty you know we were fighting the good fight all the way back that far ahead of time. I'm glad that we usually limit are weird. Beginning of show diversions to like to ish minutes now instead of five but still also in that episode. so that book is kind of based. Oh really heavily on baldwin's growing up which we'll talk about it a little bit more in a second but you can go back and listen to that one to hear us talk a little bit more about his religious upbringing. In how that factored into that novel. We also talked a little bit in that episode about baldwin's writings on richard wright and native son richard wright is another writer who wrote native son they had like you know artistic friendship for few years and then i think they had. They had a falling out. I don't know if it lasted forever after Baldwin wrote notes on a native son among other essays. Kind of critiquing authors. Write that had come before him. Baldwin was born in nineteen twenty four nine hundred eighty seven children born in harlem his mother. He had a stepfather from an early age. Who he did not have a good relationship with seems. He became a pre teens..
Overdue
Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin
"Why don't you tell me about this book that you read. It was recommended to us by one of our patrons david. Thank you david who wrote in and said my favorite authors james baldwin. I'd love to hear your take on. Giovanni s room a book that spoke to me a lot about my own dissonance before coming out. Thanks in advance david. Ps do more james baldwin. He's incredible thank you. David sure So what we want to say about this book for. I keep talking because this is the intro part of the show where like the person the author and the context yeah Giovanni room is about this guy whose name also is david who is living in paris. France literally gay hurry interesting and he has he is. He has a serious relationship with a woman named hella who is who he is. Who is unnamed right. Now and she. She is away in spain and he is in france and mainly on the plane. No that's the rain. that's the rain in spain. It's not hella in spain in spain is mainly under an umbrella. Sure that's a good one umbrella song. I love that song on. Hella hella get through the pitch. Sorry i might have no no. I didn't by. David is in paris and he meets this This bartender named giovanni and he strikes up a passionate love affair with giovanni and things kind of go downhill from both for both of them from there. Because it is. I mean the. The novel came out in nineteen fifty six. I assume that the events of the booker happening roughly contemporaneous leila. There's nothing in there to suggest that it's happening any other way.
Overdue
"james baldwin" Discussed on Overdue
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AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Filmaker Raoul Peck Is Aggravating but Good at What He Does
"Then I see a show on HBO the other night. But I was dying not to watch, by the way. But I said, let me just check this out. I know it's gonna fucking aggravate me, but the show is called exterminate all brutes. Right? Yes. Guy name raul peck documentarian filmmaker, black guy, his last project, was about James Baldwin called I am not your Negro. Listen, all I can say is if you want to hear about how bad white people have been over the ages. If you want to hear about the atrocities that we committed and Europeans committed and all the native Indians and the indigenous people who were killed in the genocides that occurred all over the world, then tune in. It's up your fucking alley, okay? If you're tired of hearing about how bad white people are, then skip it. But you know, my wife told me when I got back from the hospital that there's this great show on HBO and it's about, you know, she she's looking for, if we heard this angle in history class in school, we'd never, you know, we know a lot more about the world. And right away, I said, yeah, I already know. I already get it, hon. White people are bad. We're bad people. I'm sick of hearing it. I'm sick of my kids hearing it. It's going to give them such a complex growing up. I don't want to watch shows like this, but I have to watch it because I have to know how much I hate something. Do you understand this? This is a sickness. But raul pet, make the mistake. He is a master. At making this series. He's a master at using different types of music to elicit different responses in you. Music you wouldn't ordinarily hear. When you think of Ava Braun and Adolf Hitler, normally they don't plan any happy jokey music, but in this case he does. And it throws a different slant on things. He's brilliant at what he does. I will give him that. He's a master at making sure we all know that people of color over the centuries have gotten the short shrift. I understand that. Of course, that's true.
The Fashion Geeks
"james baldwin" Discussed on The Fashion Geeks
"To for a long time in twenty sixteen. I very much was back on the green ticket for presidency. And he was the vice presidential candidate for that With dr jill stein and to basically then. He's been someone that i've i've looked up to as i mean i mean he's just show intelligent and he's show and so i got seems speak live which was like the best best best of all afterwards i went up and actually got to meet him and i swear to god my knees shaking. I was like you know out of my mind. It was unbelievable. I got to sit there and talk with the man But he he actually brings our baldwin a lot because he talks baldwin bringing in that combination of of the serious hardcore intellectual thought but also being in touch with the people you know talking about making it relevant. What's going on and to bring this back to ball and i think that's that's something that ball does so well read some of his writings and and sometimes You know he writes almost from from too much of an academic perspective and sometimes he writes from the street perspective but he's able to blend them in a way that i know what i'm going to style but his writing is truly like nothing else. There's no one else that writes like him and bring it back to the clothing. It's the same clothes that he he wrote in the james baldwin style and he dressed in the james baldwin.
The Fashion Geeks
"james baldwin" Discussed on The Fashion Geeks
"Buy. I try to find but by a buy button down collar shirt off the rack they are going to be totally different And because it's all these little little details that contribute to make the sharp nowadays a lot of what you see is non iron which essentially means it's kind of resistant to wrinkles And it's a little bit more of a firm shape and on the surface. That might seem like a good thing ago. It's it's not really ringling. i don't really have to iron it kinda easy care. That's what it appears but a lot of times that sick cotton wrinkled shirt the wrinkles that you accrue over the course of the day they tell something about you as a person they give they give you a short little bit of personality. They tell where. You've been what you've been up to and i'm not A lot of people especially in the trans community try to put trion can flake close with. Meaning oh you know. If you're wearing a blue blazer in a in a repti- button-down shirt it must mean your. You know your traditional man who believes in traditional values level this year. that's ridiculous. I don't believe in that at all. But i do think everyone has their own opinion. And in my opinion those shirts those old charts are just better learn. Better made than the new ones. Sure no i mean that makes that makes sense to me what what other things like. I said the collar. The role. I know like i said you know drives you bananas. What other aspects of baldwin specific ivory preppy elements make. You make you excited. Well the thing is he blends them in his personal style in central way. That the don't always jump out at you. Because they serve as the base layer which i think works really effectively. So what you seen when you look at james baldwin. Is you see his enormous bug eye sunglasses. You see his neckerchiefs that's flaring out the side of his sharp. And that's what you're supposed to see. That's the way he's designed it. So that these traditional kind of more more traditionally accepted garments the garments. That are the foundation of the ivy style. Look those services. The base layer so that these items that are designed to give a little bit of flare do their job really well so essentially. You're saying that the accessories make it happen because he made it happen and it's always about the salaries right show like sometimes it'll be There's a there's a great picture of him wearing a shirley overcoat where i was going with that i integrate picture and you've got to look at it. He looks grow. I've seen it number any more detail. But it's a black and white florida yeah. I vaguely know phobia. You're talking about. Yeah i don't know where i was going with. The point is Those those items from the trad cannon the ib style cannon. They serve as the foundation of his. Look which then sets him up to bring his personal items into it to create that personal style drove..
The Fashion Geeks
"james baldwin" Discussed on The Fashion Geeks
"The bronx. And now i live in brooklyn. Lived in three of the five boroughs and immortal. You know what he has. I'm done in brooklyn alone now. I love my place and in the same place for quite a while now. So i've only two places in brooklyn. This is the second one and i've been here over ten years. It's a wrap knock wood so but my point is. I often review my influences in essentially. I literally went to prep school so to me. I have a prep perspective. Yes no question about that. But also being the first generation of hip hop and living in the bronx with my grandparents particularly the south bronx boom. That was my other influence. And i feel still to this day those to play a role. Maybe no one can see it immediately right but i would like to say you know it dictates or to set a set of foundation for the choices. I make my family. My family influence which i always mentioned riley grandparents and my mom who were my fashion style teachers literally. So you know it's it's it's where you're from but miles miles grew up middle-class son a dentist saint. Louis yeah so he had his own. Steve's too but i can imagine him coming to the jazz festival with the zoot suit. And fortunately that gentleman. Whoa yeah that's now. Stop that time. That wouldn't have been wouldn't have been too big of a hit. Newport still wouldn't have been that big ahead those you know for you personally Growing up kinda going to prep school and then kind of coming of age in that that formation era that formative era of hip hop. I mean those are just too. Yeah i mean talk about palpable influences And i think it's important like you said sometimes people might not see it sometimes. You're wearing a suit and tie and people like show wears hip hop in that. It's it's not you know like you said it's not always what you wear on your sleeve. Sometimes it's how you wear it how you conduct yourself. And that's just as important right. No absolutely correct. What is it about. Because i know you're you know you're that obesity crew. What is it about the collar. Role of james baldwin's shirts that just set you afire. Okay i am. I am to be proud of who you are. Words to. Mr jones does sat me. A fire.
The Fashion Geeks
"james baldwin" Discussed on The Fashion Geeks
"Kind. Expand who i look at is influence is a little bit and that is not beholden to the demographics like race or gender female female people who i looked to as style icons. But what would i am trying to do is kind of consciously break the barriers a little bit of just looking at ib style people. So i mean there has to be more people out there than steve mcqueen and john f. kennedy right like other people dress well to dress well in a different way and so as i'm getting older i'm realizing i don't have to stick to those rigid guidelines can push the boundaries a little bit and for me pushing the boundaries is still to the to the normal person like exceedingly traditional still. I'm still wearing a tie. And that's all they see in they're like oh wow you you know. You're wearing a tie. And i'm like yeah but check out these like patch pockets in this belted batman. What the hell are you talking about so anyway. The point is i'm trying to expand those influences a little bit so they come from different places and i think james baldwin kind of sits at that place where when he was at the height of his writing came it it coincided with the absolute peak of the popularity of the style. Look in the us and abroad because of course he lived in paris for a long while and he when he left. He stayed in parents for the remainder of his life essential. Yeah yeah powers and the south of france right and show one of the reasons. I instantly as my first one of my. I like non traditional non-chemical. Ib style influences was james. Dahlgren was because if you look at his looks. A lot of. The foundations are still very traditional. They still fit into that. Id cannon rights over the highs button-down callers with a really nice role. He has on tweed sport coats. Kind of the the charlene overcoat but with baldwin does is he adds personal flair to that in a way that makes it truly personal style so he is not john f. kennedy in the sense that Okay is bad example. Because he wasn't really ivy style cutlets. Let's say miles. Davis miles davis for those five years was ib style and ib style. Only baldwin was not that because what he did is he took some of those elements and then added his own personal flair to that. And it's my personal theory that his upbringing during the harlem renaissance was a huge influence on obviously whole lifestyle but his his his clothing specifically Can i go on a little. Bit of a tangent. I echo among. Yeah in preparation for this for this podcast. The other day. I was thinking about this. And you know what i was gonna say and one of the things. I was thinking about with.
The Fashion Geeks
"james baldwin" Discussed on The Fashion Geeks
"I mean what you wearing right. Like i said he's wearing these staples ikaes wearing a button down shirt. He's wearing a tweet sport coat. But what else does he have. He's wearing an ascott. That's flared at the neck. He's wearing these gigantic bug eye. Glasses and i mean those are things that the average guy. They would be petrified to win and he was doing it with so much charisma because he had that natural flair ingrained in him from a young age from growing up around that type of stuff. Who i'm ready. And i'm jeff. We're there bashing geek new york and the world is the world a little flyer one outfit and podcast time. James baldwin was my mom's here. She had all these books. Your mother's first teacher and said she liked him. I liked to only was he a prolific writer books and magazine articles. He was a playwright to my mom's who who's mr child the answer theater. Which is now on his wilson theater on fifty second street in one thousand nine hundred eighty four star pat single out beeman. Junior rip torn dan. The san and burgess maryland. Google all is of stage and screen all gone just like my mom. Many years ago. I was at the geneva film festival in charlottesville for work at only been a majok or a few months. We were lobbying trying to curry favor with the head of the festival. Rip torn was at a reception that we sponsor my boss and my co workers off seeing didn't know what to do so i walked up to him and we introduce myself. I went to prep school. Saint john talk for hours. My boss a co workers were shocked. Flabbergasted jobs in corporate america never got to meet. You wonder what he would make himself in deemed the fashion much. Less amongst young impressionable. Whiteman this is reg ferguson. Fashion geek number. One how are you. Welcome to the ride and thank you so much for listening. Please tell your friends about us. Please tell them to subscribe and please give us a review on apple podcasts. Essentially shout goes to our producer search and everyone down with the fashion keeps. If you have a question or story suggestion you can email me at podcast at ny fashion keith dot com or hit me up on the insta and newark fashion peak. Today we're gonna talk with trevor jones. Who's a writer for ivy style. Purveyor of classic menswear with his ebay shop and consignment killings in who is in hamilton massachusetts. We're gonna talk about a person who's an icon in many categories for the everyday man. But we're gonna single him out for menswear. We are going to talk about james baldwin. Trevor jones in the building read going on and our you meant good. How are you. I'm well i'm well. You keeping safe out there. Yeah i'm doing my best and you now just trying to limit limit risk and limit exposures as much as possible. So doing the best i can with. That sounds good. Your your mother son. She wants to make sure you're safe. That's right well. I really appreciate you taking the time. I know We had to do some rescheduling. And that was my. That was my fault. I had a personal situation a few weeks ago. But we finally. We've finally are here together. Yeah i mean. Listen anytime that i can talk and specifically talk about style. I'm happy i'm just happy to do that. So thanks for having no no no no no absolutely of course you know. We met on the graham quite a while ago. And that's a wonderful lead in to the reason why you're on so we met on the graham followed each other. I like watching your stuff. I know you're firing schoolteacher. That's right and you're in grad school yet last semester. But as everyone we look at each other stories my stories candidly to me. Serve as a mood board. I think they do for you as well. Yeah very much usually for me. It's one of two things it's A mood board. Like you said or if i just got a bunch of new stuff. It's usually me kinda shamelessly trying to plug my ebay store you are. I know you are successful on which to let you know. I've been procrastinating as you know and now for the listeners is not about menswear. It's about my late moms and grandmas stuff that i have in my possession now when i had to go through the house so i actually went through a set of china. And i've got a priced out in everything. But of course i have not taken the photos so maybe after speaking with i mean that's that's the killer is just like taking the photos and i don't know what it's like for like homegoods and furnishings in that type of stuff but for close you got to do the measurements in that. That is just a killer part. It's like takes forever to get you know because the thing is you have to. You have to mark every single like flaw or stain or anything like that. Because you don't you know the person on the other end. They're going to get like what is what is this. I thought this was in perfect condition. There's a tiny little millimeter hole at the bottom left shoulder seam all right sounds like the lunatic fringe. But i'm i'm ready. Like i said i priced them. The photography really isn't going to be difficult at all i did. I did a search. I saved a search on this one particular brand china in a bunch of sellers out there. My big difference. Is i only want to do local pickup because karaoke allied. I'm terrified to try to package. This china yeah. Yeah yeah yeah totally especially this year to with like the way the The usps has been in terms of Just kind of being delayed and and items getting lost and so then you add on top of that like like you said years are valuables fragile so you got to be real careful with that exactly so again. Looking at your stories. I realized every once in a while that you would highlight african americans. And i'm not saying that that for the reason of it to be surprising crusade because you live in the world as an african american man. I think what happens sometimes with me..
Monocle 24: Meet the Writers
interview With Caleb Azumah Nelson
"Kayla. Thanks so much for joining me. I know that you have huge demands on your time because your book has just exploded. Hasn't it yeah. I've been kind of astounded by iolanthe disapora in jeopardy seeing everywhere. I think it's you know. I was a little bit worried about coming out in the lockdown and it just i haven't had to have that worry at the moment it just feels like the supposed be really overwhelming and really. I'm really grateful now. I introduced you as a photographer and writer d. You now think that that's switched. Are you a writer. Perhaps with the bisa photography feel like. I've always been a writer. I and i think photography is has been another medium in which i can communicate and express like i've been writing since i can remember likelihood you're like four or five years old scribbler. Like really terrible. Shoot stories have l-. I think the the medium of photography really allows a visual element to come into my work and very much comes through in this book open water. There's a lot about you feel the sort of the poetry the visual the creativity. I mean those are major themes aren't they about about creativity. I think the the the starting point or for any saw them. Artistic expression is feeling and emotion. And then it's working is working from that once have the feeding emotion. I'm trying to express define the best medium for in this case. It was writing but the but the writing contained these elements. Are these references to music can to to visual artists than film which took the narrative elsewhere afforded a different dimension. I i. I would have been possible if i just like kind of ryan straight pros and of course if the two characters one is a dancer. One is a photographer like you. That will so you to kind of explore all of those teams much more than living it. Yeah there's i guess there's a I guess everyone has their that. Point is expression even if is like a professional level epic. Everyone is has something that they do to express themselves in. It was important for me to to have the these law autistic expressions index the title itself. Open water for me. It feels like you're talking about freedom there but you will set talking about the dangers that can lurk in a water. Yeah it some there. Was this idea of justice. Like real ruled in almost infinite freedom. You know when you you'll standing on a beach yukon see where who had the see and like the that kind of idea but not knowing what does look like what. Dangers are present in our in our every day. I think it was important for me to have these Protagonists to have. Like the kind of fullness wholeness like range in which they good light just be in. Just have this freedom by. I wanted to comment on what happens when you find that. Freedom interrupted without giving any of the plus away at this point. Yeah a lot of this is told through dialogue. Which i know is fiendishly difficult to achieve and then at one point you sort of depart from the traditional writing style the whole kind of you say she says tell me about that. Change of structure the About giving too much away the bat point in the story. The narrative has been a bill and bill bill and then reached this kind of the apex this peak in which the image i had to switch the structure slightly so that it was hughley the protagonist kind of like spilling in a way like it was. It's like feeling a competent. And the woods at that point had just spilled over and that's what began to emerge and not not lots of the narrative using the this second person who almost away fruit was really important for me to create this kind of very intimate as very intimate narrative in which the reader can beat by the burford. An audience member nossa the protagonists themselves at an. Did you write it like that from the start or were you fiddling about with with that structure. That was really attention from the beginning. I think i'm always wondering a novel could be like. I'm always astounded by different nobles. Come across the us. Full more structured as a narrative device that this would only serve to push an artist the book has described as absolutely nailing the black experience the london black experience when you were growing up with their books for you that spoke to that or are we only now. Seeing the emergence of of works that will speak to the next generation. Yeah i think when i was when i was growing up his voracious reader like i would just read anything i can get my hands on but there were specific which was speaking to that black british experience. Like our say. The mallory blackman might really An kind of like primary and early teen years and then later on as eighty smith but it was a real struggle to to kind of find tips. The the like i instantly recognized i could. I could understand kind of relate to to various fictional works especially from the over. The pond said like james baldwin and tony morrison writes slide. Those are really integral to save my reading and writing growing up the yet only the kind of feels like now. There's a slight pushing the direction in which the narratives that haven't been beginning to be by fitness way to
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KQED Radio
"james baldwin" Discussed on KQED Radio
"By James Baldwin. We've been talking about writing for the last two days, which is a very reckless thing to do. So that I shall be absolutely reckless tonight and pretend that I'm writing a novel in your presence. Going to ramble on a little tonight about my own past. Not as though he were my own past exactly. But as a subject for fiction. I'm doing this in a kind of halting attempt to relate the terms of my experience to yours and to find out what specific principle if any. Unites us in spite of all the obvious disparities, some of which is superficial and some of which are profound and most of which are entirely misunderstood. We'll come back to that. In any case, this misunderstanding. I mean in a minute, but I want to warn you that I'm not pretending to be unbiased. I'm certain There is something which unites all the Americans in this room. Though I can't say what it is, but if I were to meet any one of you in some other country England, Italy, France or Spain It would be at once apparent to everybody else, though it might not be to us that we had something in common, which scarcely any other people or no other people could really share. Let's pretend that I want to write a novel concerning the people or some of the people with whom I grew up. And since we're only playing, let's pretend it's a very long novel. I want to follow a group of lives almost from the time they open their eyes on the world until some point of resolution say. Marriage or childbirth or death, and I want to impose myself on these people as little as possible. That means that Do not want to tell them or the reader what principal their lives illustrate or what principle is activating their lives. But by examining their lives, I hope to be able to make them conveyed to me and to the reader what their lives mean. Now I know that this is altogether impossible. I mean that I know that my people are controlled by my point of view, and that by the time I begin the novel, I have some idea of what I want the novel to do what to say or to be, but just the same. Whatever my point of view is Whatever my intentions, because I am an American writer. My subject and my material inevitably has to be a handful of incoherent people in an incoherent country. And I don't mean incoherent in any light sense and later on, we'll talk about what I mean when I use that word. Well, who are these people fill my past and seemed to clamor to be expressed. Was born on a very wide avenue in Harlem, and in those days that part of town was called the Hollow. And now it's called Junkies Hollow. The time was the 19 twenties. As I was coming into the world, there was something going on called the Negro Renaissance. And the most distinguished survivor of that time is Mr Langston Hughes. This Negro Renaissance is an elegant term, which means that white people had then discovered that Negroes could act on right. As well. A sing and dance and this renaissance was not destined to last very long, very shortly, there was to be a depression. The artistic Negro or the Noble Savage was to give way to the militant or the new Negro. And I want to point out something in passing, which I think is worth our time to look at. Which is this. This country's image of the Negro, which hasn't very much to do with the Negro. Has never failed to reflect with a kind of frightening accuracy, the state of mind of the country. This was the Jazz age. You will remember. It was the epoch of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Josephine Baker, just going to friend's. Mussolini had just come to power in Italy. There was a peculiar man in Germany. It was plotting and writing. And the Lord knows with the moon was mother was thinking and all of these things and a million more, which are now known to the novelist, but not to his people are to have a terrible effect on their lives. There's a figure I carry my mind's eye to this day, and I don't know why he can't really be the first person I remember. But he seems to be apart from my mother and father. And this is a man about as old perhaps as I am now. Who's coming up our street. Very drunk, falling down drunk, and it must have been a Saturday now sitting in the window. It must have been went to because I remember he had a black overcoat on because his overcoat was open. And he stumbling pass some of those high iron railings with spikes on top, and he's he falls, and he bumped his head against one of those railings and blood comes down his face and their kids behind him, and they're tormenting him and laughing at him. And that's all I remember. And I don't know why. But I only throw a man to dramatize this fact. That, however solemn we writers or myself. I They sometimes sound or how pontifical I may sometimes seem to be on that level from which any genuine work of imagination springs I'm really and we all are absolutely Helpless and ignorant. But this figure is important because he's going to appear in my novel. He can't be kept out of it. He occupies two larger place in my imagination. And then, of course, I.
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Storytellers: Lorraine Hansberry
"Today's storyteller was a playwright and activist. Who stories centered. African american working class families despite tragically short career. She became the first black woman to have a play produced on broadway half a century later her work remains one of the most celebrated snapshots of black struggles and black joy. Here's the story of lorraine hands berry lorraine hands berry was born on may nineteenth nineteen thirty on the south side of chicago. Her father carl. Augustus was a prominent figure. Within the city's black community having founded one of the first african american banks growing up lorraine and her three older siblings played host to a number of famous people including langston hughes. Wabc boys duke ellington and olympic gold. Medalist jesse owens. Despite their middle class status and cultural connections the hands berries were still subject to chicago's deeply ingrained. Housing segregation agreements known as restrictive covenants were widespread throughout the city. White property owners could collectively agree not to sell to african americans. This practice created a ghetto known as the black belt which ran through the south side when lorraine was eight years old. Her father secretly bought a home. In one of the so-called restricted heads in nineteen thirty seven when the family moved in a white mob attacked a brick was thrown through the window narrowly missing lorraine the local homeowners association filed an injunction for the hands berries to vacate lorraine her siblings were chased spat and beaten during their walks to and from school the supreme court of illinois doubled down on the legality of the restrictive covenant. And the hands. Berries were forced out of their home eventually the. Us supreme court overruled this ruling on a technicality. Thirty blocks subsequently opened up to black families across the south side while this ruling and the hands fight did not outlaw restrictive covenants. It did signal. The beginning of the end for the practice lorraine attended. Chicago's englewood high school where she became interested in theatre. She initially attended the university of wisconsin. Where she cut her teeth with the communist party but left after two years in one thousand nine hundred fifty lorraine moved to new york to be a writer by nineteen fifty one lorraine had found a home in harlem and began socializing with many of the great thinkers who had once visited her family back in chicago. She started writing for paul robeson freedom a progressive newspaper at a protest against racial discrimination at new york university lorraine met robert number off a jewish writer. They married at her family home in chicago. In nineteen fifty three in nineteen. Six robert co wrote the hit song. Cindy oh cindy it's prophets allowed lorraine to stop working to focus on writing. She began developing a play that she initially called. The crystal stair langston hughes poem mother to son she would later changed the name to a raisin in the sun. This too was from a langston hughes poem called harlem. What happens to a dream deferred. Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun or faster like a sore and then run a raisin in the sun centers on a black working class family in chicago south side as they try to improve their financial situation. The patriarch of the family has died and a ten thousand dollar insurance payout is imminent they the money to buy a house in the cheaper all white neighborhood nearby to they use it to invest in a liquor store and education lorraine based many of the characters on the families who rented from her father and with whom she attended high school the cast safer one character was entirely black lorraine was in her twenties and the play itself dealt with racism life in chicago's black belt and the pain of assimilation into white culture topics that were considered risky for the predominantly white theater. Going crowd it took over a year to raise enough money to put the play up. When it debuted in nineteen fifty-nine a raisin in the sun was the first play written by a black woman to be produced on broadway and the first to be led by an african american director lorraine was twenty nine years old. The play was an almost instant. Hit the new york drama critics circle named it. The best play of the year just five months after its broadway debut arisen in the son of in london's west end in nineteen sixty one. A film starring much of the original cast was released and several of the actors received golden globe. Nominations perhaps the most important element of the play success was that entailing box stories. Lorraine also make theater accessible and previously unimaginable ways as the writer. James baldwin noted. I had never in my life seen so many black people in the theater and the reason was that never before in the entire history of the american theatre had so much of the truth of black people's lives and seen on the stage. Black people had ignored the theatre because the theatre had always ignored them lorraine would go on to finish in stage. Just one other. Play the sign in sidney bruce. Deans window about a jewish intellectual the play which explored themes of homosexuality and the bohemian lifestyle. Debuted to mixed reviews in nineteen sixty four. It ran for just over one hundred performances closing on january twelfth. Nineteen sixty five. That's same day. Lorraine hanbury died of pancreatic cancer. She was thirty four years old. After lorraine's death. Her ex husband robert had several of her plays produced posthumously to be young gifted and black became an autobiographical work. Drawing on lorraine's letters interviews and journal entries the title came from a nineteen sixty four speech of lorraine's when she spoke to the winners of a united negro fund writing competition. She said speech though. It be thrilling marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times it is doubly so w dynamic to be young gifted and black
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Nikema Williams on her first day in congress
"So this is a picture of Congresswoman Nicky, Mo Williams was taken Sunday, right inside the Capitol Rotunda. Let's see if we can get There we go. So this was right after she was born in. So Williams represented Georgia's fifth district. That was the seat held by longtime congressman John Lewis until his death last year. Congressman Congresswoman Williams joins us live Now for our special election night coverage tonight, Congressman First recognition. Hey, congratulations to you. It's only been a few days. Has your experience in Congress been interesting? So far? How would you describe it? Oh, it has been quite interesting and it is going to continue that way. Because tomorrow we have the electoral college certification. And on the House floor. And as you probably have heard, there are a lot of Republicans that are looking to contest the election results from six days and George is one of those states. So I get the opportunity to defend our democracy on my very first time Speaking from the floor of the House of Representatives, and that certainly is fitting for you, Congresswoman, So tell me about that, though you were one of the 16 electors here in Georgia that certified Electoral college votes just a few weeks ago, And now this, you have to face this. Like you said, kind of on your first day. Absolutely. And so as I was thinking about tomorrow like my ascertainment that was fine with my name on it was signed by Brian Kim. In theory, anybody who would have done anything possible within the limits of the law. I assume it prime hip is not gonna do the chemo Williams any favors, So I am looking forward to tomorrow because I am assured that once everything is said and done, Joe Biden will continue to Be the vice president elect, and we're going through these games that the other party is playing, and it's really beyond partisanship. At this point, Jovita it is really an affront to our patriotism. This is about our country. Now. This is about our democracy. And we are going to see you're like election results Turnout tonight and they should have been focused on these election results like we were because I'm optimistic, and I think I'm gonna have to Democratic U S. Senators from Georgia Joining me in Washington Gods woman. What happens if the results at the end of this night with these run off So tomorrow? What do you think it's going to take for perhaps the country to come together? You have used language, saying that you'd like to represent everyone and unite. Absolutely so. And I will pure appraise the quote by James Baldwin. I can love and work with anyone except for those people who believe in my repression and don't believe in my humanity at the person, But what I hope that we can come together on is how do we get our Children back to school safely have a five year old. Was in the background, so I hope he doesn't join us at any moment. But it needs to be in school and person, but it needs to be state. How do we get our economy back on track? I get the emails from people who have been waiting for unemployment is this summer? Because are they don't have jobs for no fault of their own. And how do we make sure that we get this pandemic under control? Have a good roll out of this vaccine, Get the people vaccinated that needed and keep people safe in the process, So I hope those are some things that we can come together and work on that impacts everybody in this country. Not just one party. Thank you so much. Congresswoman Nicky, Mo Williams, representing Georgia's fifth district. Now we know that you are anxiously awaiting these results as we are watching them here at home. So thank you for joining us taking your time tonight. Thank you. Thank you. You have in
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah: Ears Edition
Barack Obama clarifies his criticism of 'Defund the Police': 'Not the point I was making'
"Nothing made me more optimistic. During a very difficult year than the activism that we saw in the wake of george floyd memorial and black lives matter and i have consistently believed that their courage activism media savvy strategic resolve a far exceeds anything that i could have done their agent. I think has shifted the conversation in ways that i even imagined a couple of years ago so throughout this this slew of compliments i then said well what do you think about. Be particular slogan defunding. The police and i said well that particular slogan i think the concern is that there may be potential allies out there that you lose and issue always is. How do you get enough people to support your cause that you can actually institutionalize it and translated into laws rights and so forth or two or three brighter. Who i admire. Who wrote out obama's making an admission to chastised black lives matter and you go what hold on a second. I just spent the whole summer. Complementing remember what are you talking about the reason it caught attention. I suspect is there. Were some in the democratic party. Who suggested the reason we didn't do better in the congressional elections. This time was because of this phrase that people assumed that. Somehow i was making an argument that right. That's why we didn't get you know. A bigger democratic majority. That actually was not the point. i was making. I was making a very particular point around if we in fact want to translate the the the the very legitimate belief that how we do policing needs to change and that if there is for example a homeless guy ranting and railing in the middle of the street sending a mental health worker. Rather than an armed untrained. Police officer to deal with that person might be a better outcome for all of us and make us safer right that if we describe that to nudge us white folks. But let's say michelle's mom that makes sense to them but if we say defunding the police not just white folks but michelle's mom might say if i'm getting robbed who am i gonna call and is somebody gonna show up right so the issue here becomes at any given. How are we translating and using language not to make people more comfortable quote unquote right because that's always a strain and historically all the concern in these debates is also as often or are we just trying to make white people comfortable rather than speaking truth to power right. that's the framework. We tend to think about these things right yet. The issue to me is not making them comfortable. It is can we be precise with our language enough that people who might be persuaded around that particular issue to make a particular change that gets a particular result that we want. What's the best way for us to describe that and basically saying is we should workshop all of our slogans with michelle. That's what i that probably would be wise. It would probably work. But but i wanna go back to something you said earlier which i think is really important and i said this in the wake of of some criticism i said look. Part of this is also. Everybody has different roles to play an activist movement. Leader is is going to provide a prophetic voice and speak certain truths that somebody who is going to be elected into office will not be able to say i reread james. Baldwin's a fire next time this summer. How is it that something written fifty years ago fifty five year. Yeah yeah applies directly today. Despite everything that's happened to me that is as honest a portrayal of the the gaping wound of race in america.
Encyclopedia Womannica
Civil Rights Activist, Patricia Stephens Due
"Hello from Wonder Media Network I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is encyclopedia will Manica. All month we're talking about activists. Women who stood up against injustice and four a better world. Today we're talking about an American civil rights activist whose work began as a student and extended throughout her life and beyond. She was one of the leaders of the sit in and Jalen movements continuing to fight for a more just society even when faced with serious harm. According to The New York Times her FBI file was over four hundred pages long. Let's talk about Patricia Stevens do. Patricia Gloria Stevens was born on December ninth nineteen, thirty, nine fifteen months after her sister Priscilla who would go on to be partner in many organizing efforts. Patricia was the second of three kids born to Lottie Mae Powell Stevens, and Horace Walter Stevens. The Stevens family lived in Belgrade Florida for most Patricia Youth. By the time she was thirteen years old Patricia was very aware of the discrimination she faced for being black and was ready to protest. She and her sister refused to go to the designated colored window at their local dairy queen. Instead, they stood in line for the window marked whites only. In one, thousand, nine, hundred, Eighty, seven Patricia started school at Florida Am University. Two years later in Nineteen fifty-nine Patricia and Priscila attended a workshop put on by the Congress of racial equality or core on nonviolent civil disobedience. Patricia then started a local chapter of the organization in order to continue the work, she tried to tackle it just thirteen years old integration. The following year on February. Twentieth Nineteen Sixty Patricia, her sister, and some other students sat down at a whites only lunch counter at a Woolworth Tallahassee and refused to get up until they were served. Nineteen days earlier, four guys sat down at a similar lunch counter in Greensboro North Carolina officially kicking off. Since movement across the South Patricia and ten of her peers were arrested rather than paying three hundred dollar Fine Patricia and. Out Forty nine days in jail. Their determination to serve their time as a statement became a norm when others were arrested and charged on fairly. Patricia leadership and courage caught the attention of people around the country support of the cause including Jackie Robinson Eleanor Roosevelt Harry Belafonte, and James. Baldwin. Dr Martin. Luther King. Junior. Sent the sisters telegram that said. Going to jail for a righteous cause as a badge of honor and a symbol of dignity. After she was finally released, Patricia continued the fight to change her city and country. One of her fellow activists was a man named John D do junior. He was law school at Florida Am University. The two got married in nineteen, sixty three and would go on to have three children together for their honeymoon Patricia and John went to the march on Washington and heard Dr King's I have a dream speech. The following year in one, thousand, nine, hundred, eighty, four, Patricia took on a new role in corps. She served as field secretary for a voter education and Registration Project in North Florida under her leadership. program. More. Voters than any other regional program in the south. Patricia also worked to improve the lives of workers, the poor and other underserved populations in the US. But her activism took a physical toll on her. After being hit in the face by a can of tear gas, Patricia is were injured and she was forced to wear dark glasses for the rest of her life in nineteen sixty, seven, ten years after she enrolled. Patricia graduated from Florida Am. University it took her all of a decade to get her degree because she spent periods of time traveling around the US to rally energy behind the civil rights movement. She was also suspended multiple times by the
Hysteria
A Conversation With Rep. Ayanna Pressley
"Representative Presley. First of all, we love you. So you know it's going to be a hard hitting interview. With. We love you. Let's let's get into it. Okay. So president trump has clearly included playing up unrest in cities in part of his reelection strategy. He's even gone as far as to imply Democrats are to blame for escalating violence at protests, how Progressives and Democrats push for police reform in a world where an attempt at pursuing justice is spun as a rush to anarchy by right wing media and used as an excuse to become violent by law enforcement officials. Say It's thrilled to be here with all of you. Thank you. I'm big admirers in the ends of the two of you and glad to be with you today. You know what can I say about Donald? Trump. These already the dog whistles anymore there are just blaring horns you know wrapped up in incendiary soundbites and cruel policy in calcium administration. So it's very predictable. This is an old play in this sort of in movement building work you know we're used to it. How do we advance policy? The way always advanced policy as a nation nestor movements you. Know a lot of people when they reflect back on those grainy images, those black and white images of protests and demonstrations. In the nineteen sixties, they will define the progress came out of that solely as the voting rights act in the civil rights at but honestly that movement was the blueprint for every progressive piece of legislation thereafter. So this is how legislation is moved its through movement building and social transformation. That is why now things like inviting qualified immunity which bill that I introduced representative Justin Amash are now part of public discourse that is from organizing mobilizing. Conversations around reimagining our budgets to actually value black lives that has everything to do with the power of movement building, and so we have to continue to do that. We're in this moment of national reckoning on racial injustice is a culture shift occurring people. Now, a very unapologetically affirm that black lives matter but now that has to translate into power shift that is reflected in who we elect to office the laws that we right in the budgets that right those are the only. Receipts that matter. So if you believe that black lives, matter than black representation matters than black data matters, then black home ownership matters black entrepreneurialism matters in. So that's how I seek to legislate is in a very precise way and I'll in here by saying the disproportion hate heard her that has been foisted onto black Americans for generations was not naturally occurring. It was legislated was precise in codified lawmaking until the path forward must be one where we are also precise reverend. Barber. Poor. People's campaign someone that I look too often and just someone admire tremendously. Grateful for his moral clarity and conviction says for moment of reckoning the demands, a third reconstruction, and so that's what we need to be squarely focused. Dohrn is what does that third construction looked like and how do we enlist everyone from organizers to lawmakers as community builders in that reconstruction of a better word equitable world IANNA and I'm calling you Iona because I've known you since the ninety s and that's just how it's going to be. When you when you were telling me what's what? Let's not forget? This week. Joe Biden gave a speech and he released an ad where he made the point to clarify that contrary to what the trump camp is saying about him. He doesn't actually like property destruction that has occurred were some protests have occurred? By doing this Biden, allowing trump to control the conversation. Let me just say this there is an effort to infiltrate into undermine the impact of the black lives matter movement, and the fact that these motivation efforts have continued, which is constitutional. Right to assemble to peacefully protest descent is the ultimate patriotism. James Baldwin said I extensively paraphrase like I criticized this country America because I, love it just that much. She can and must be better. I think we have to be careful to make sure that our movements are not co-opted the people that I see in community who are the four of these movements bay, our community builders, not destroyers and the people that are doing that are infiltrators who won the black lives matter movement to be aligned to be mischaracterize. The people doing the work of justice seeking our peacekeepers you know and I, also think it's important that we not completely rewrite history and sanitize what these movements have looked like in the past. No. So people will bring up Dr King and they'll bring up John Lewis. Will John Lewis was who practice nonviolent peaceful protests almost died on that bridge in many times thereafter in fact, many advocates have said we don't know how John Lewis made it out alive because they always focused on.
LGBTQ&A
James Baldwin: The 1967 Detroit Riots
"Recently, I've been thinking a lot about the work of James Baldwin and in particular this one speech that he gave about the racial problem in America. We're GONNA. Hear a click. Today is from Horace, vase nine thousand, nine, hundred, sixty, nine short film called Baldwin's and word, and like so much work. It feels like he's describing this very moment in time, and then the other thing you'll hear I think is his patriotism James. Baldwin wanted to make our country and world the best possible place for everyone that is true of people protesting in one, thousand, nine hundred. Hundred Sixty seven that he describes, and it's also true with people protesting today hearing from Queer figures like James Baldwin it always makes me feel just a little bit more grounded, and I think it also show is why we unfortunately have to continue to say yes. Black lives do matter and I sang. Nut is also just the beginning of the work that we have to do so to that. We've got some links in the show notes. If you're still looking for resources for how involved where to start, he'll check all those out and then without further ado. Here's James Baldwin. School really was the streets of New York City. My frame of Reference was George Washington and John Wayne. And you are formed by what you see choices you'd have to make and later discover what it means to be black in new. York I know how as you grow older, you watch in the richest city in the world the richest. Nation in the world. In the Western World I know how you watch as you grow older. Literally This is not a figure of speech. The cost of your brothers and your sisters pile up around you. Not for anything they have done. They were too young done anything. And the case to help. What one does realize is that? When you try to stand up. And the world in the face like you had a right to be here. When you do that without knowing this the result of it, you have attacked. The entire power structure of the Western, world. And speak plainly. We know. Everybody knows. No matter what recessions in my unhappy country maybe? But we are not. Bothering people out of existence in the name of freedom. Concerned with freedom, boys and girls, not as Istan here, the perishing streets of Harlem. We are concerned with power nothing more than that. In most unluckily for the Western world is consolidated its power. On the backs of people who are now willing to die. Rather than be used. Any longer. In short. The economic range in the Western world. Food to be too expensive for most of the world. And the Western world will change US arrangements. All these arrangements will be changed for them. This is what it's beneath all the rhetoric. And all those ashamed speeches coming from my president. This imposes on us then. Very considerable burden. I for example do have in principle least choice. I can make a living. And well enough known to be an ornament. And Short I could ally myself on the side of what I most seriously considered to be. A criminal nation. But if I can't do that. All the reasons that I can. When is tried? I tried for a long time and I don't person. Things I wrote things I said. That I was alone. I'm using myself as an example. You to my. White and black. Nature of a danger. And where we were going to go if he cannot resolve. The situation cities and then I'll streets now houses. If they come. When you realize that you cannot make yourself heard that people who? You are addressing plea on the previous ever super. One Saying, look at it. Get all the mountains of nonsense that had been written. And everything has been set. What you look at what is happening in this country? What really happening is the brother has murdered brother knowing it was his brother. White men have been negroes to be their son. Why women have had negroes burn knowing to be their love. It is at a ratio problem. Is a problem whether or not you're willing to look at your life and be responsible for it. And then begin to change its. That Great Western House I come from one house. Nine one of the children that house. Somebody on the most despised child that house. And it is because the American people are unable. The face of fact tonight back I'm flesh out their flesh. Bone of your bone. Created by them. My blood! My father's but is in that soil. They can't say that. And that is why. The Detroit another plane. And when has got to decide I think? The actual. And the moral base. which the world we know now rest. Obsolete. And deposit obsolete. They're wicked. As well as their obsolete, they are oppressive. Is simply not conceivable. That's another five hundred years of two hundred years or one hundred years. Should live and die. In the minds. Being, treated like animals to make other people rich. Civilization which is doing this. By doing this doomed itself. And it's not possible. To agree with it. Nor the possible to compromise with it. As much the much overused word. And it may not be as real as slavery. A very concrete thing. But freedom loved ones actor, and as it cannot I suppose beginning. Then obviously must. Take.
The Nicole Sandler Show
Billy Porter makes history with Emmy win
"Game of thrones is officially over the epoch TV series capped off its run Sunday night I by winning its Fourth Emmy for best drama series over eight seasons game of thrones one fifty nine emmys. There was an upset in the best comedy category gory where the Amazon Series fleabag took the prize for best comedy and its star Phoebe Waller Bridge also took acting and writing honors post are billy porter made history becoming the first openly gay black man to win the lead actor in a drama series. Emmy that I'm so overjoyed to have lived long enough to see this day. James Baldwin said took many years vomiting up all the filth that I have been taught about myself and halfway believed before I could walk around this earth like I had the right to be here. I have the right you have the right. Thanks to the KADEMI for voting for us because we love you for that and speaking of voting and love go and register to Vo go to vote register and all those the show itself suffered from terrible writing there were a few noteworthy acceptance
Morning Edition
Phoebe Waller-Bridge surprised by acting win
"Billy Porter became the first openly gay black man to win an Emmy as best lead actor in a drama Sunday any marked the moment by quoting another history making gay black man noted author and activist James Baldwin James Baldwin said took many years of vomiting up all the filth that I have been talked about myself and halfway believed before I could walk around this earth like I had the right to be here Porter speech was a powerful moment and any telecast filled with a few expected wins and lots of surprises in particular Phoebe Waller bridge creator star in writer of Amazon prime videos comedy flea bag stepped on stage three times for wins is best writer in a comedy Best Actress in a comedy and when the show won as best comedy series Waller bridge competed against TV veterans like Julia Louis Dreyfus whose one seven times as best comedy actress seemed a bit stunned herself by the third win this is getting ridiculous. is a one woman show in Edinburgh Festival and the journey he's been absolutely despite a finale season they drew criticism from some fans game of thrones one as best drama series star Peter Dinklage earned a historic fourth Emmy as best Supporting Actor in a drama the only actor from game of thrones to win on Sunday night another expected when was Alex Borstein who earned her second Emmy in a row as best supporting actress in a comedy for her work on Amazon's the marvelous Mrs Maisel she gave it may have been the speech of the night recalling her grandmother who was a Holocaust survivor my grandmother turned to a guard she was in line to be shot into a pit and she said what happens if I step out of line and he said I don't have the heart to shoot you but somebody will and she stepped out of line and for that I am here and for that my children are here so step out of line ladies.
KCRW's Hollywood Breakdown
Golden Globes nominations and the Oscars find a host...for now
"KCRW sponsors include neon presenting vox, Lux, twenty-first-century portrait of Celeste a pop megastar grappling with a tragic past starring Academy Award winner, Natalie Portman and Academy Award nominee, Jude law academy eligible in all categories opens Friday. I'm Kim masters, and this is the Hollywood breakdown joining me is Matt Bellamy of the Hollywood reporter, and Matt we have the Golden Globes nominations out today, and I cannot discuss the Golden Globes without once again, noting what the heck are the Golden Globes. I mean, this is a group of foreign press people, and they are not a big group about ninety. I think is how many there are and they have managed, you know, kudos to them to create this gigantic deal around a bunch of reporters, some of them who I think are not even fulltime reporters may not have been published for awhile anywhere that you've even heard of. But whatever they've made it into this huge deal this huge telecast. And even though it has no connection to the academy whatsoever. It is. Deemed to have influence, so I guess we have to talk about. Yeah. And the fact of the matter is the Globes do matter they're an awards body that starts off the season their their nominations are in play during the very important holiday movie going seasons. So they can be influential on box office, and they are an indicator of the Oscar nominations, and I think this year the big winner from the globe. It's gotta be vice the Dick Cheney movie from Adam McKay, which has six nominations to lead the field. Yeah. I mean vices people thought that Christian bale would be nominated for playing Dick Cheney. But I don't think it had been seen in the best picture category. I don't know if it truly influences, but maybe on some unconscious level this attention does influence, so I'll let you have that point. Again. There are some changes. I do think that the Hollywood Foreign Press has tried to do better. There has been a wrap in the past that they snub movies with African American cats that did not happen this year movies that are in the mix. This year are black klansman. From Spike Lee, Black Panther. Of course, the marvel movie, and if Beale street could talk which is based on James Baldwin story. So those movies are in and that's better one thing that has not gotten better. And this was pointed out last year by Natalie Portman and announcing the nominations no women nominees again in the director category. That is unfortunate. I don't think the Academy Awards nominations will likely have any female directors. Either least how it's playing out right now Tamara Jenkins is sort of in the race for the fertility drama private life that she directed for net. Flicks. There is Debra Granik has leave no trace, but that's considered a smaller movie, and Marielle Heller has can you ever forgive me, which is getting more notice for Melissa McCarthy's performance, and she was nominated today as well. Yeah. Of course, there's khloe show with the writer, which just wanna Critics Award in New York. So that I think might be on the academy's potentially. It's a small. Movie, but potentially on the kademi threat. Our TV is where the most controversy happens, you know, things like succession overlooked, which is a very well regarded HBO series, and you know, certain things that don't seem to make sense, but I'm just going to pivot away from that for second to talk briefly about the Academy Awards after a long delay. The academy has come up with a host or ABC for the ABC telecast, Kevin Hart instantly, there are issues on the internet because of homophobic jokes that Kevin Hart had tweeted unfortunate. But it's a very tough job the academy to find a host. And it looks like they may have overlooked something here. Yeah, he certainly popular and has a lot of movies that people love. So we'll see when that they stay with them. Thank you, Matt. Thank you. That's Melanie editorial director of the Hollywood reporter. He joins me this Monday at two o'clock on the business. I'm Kim masters, and this is the Hollywood breakdown KCRW sponsors include neon presenting vox Lux at twenty-first-century portrait of Celeste. A pop megastar grab. Alling with a tragic past starring Academy Award winner, Natalie Portman and Academy Award nominee, Jude law academy eligible in all categories opens Friday, this podcast was made by public radio station. KCRW our status has a nonprofit enables us to make bold and unusual programs. But we need your support to keep it that way donate or become a member at KCRW dot com slash join.
After Hours with Rick Kogan
Playboy art director Art Paul, 93, and photographer Art Shay, 96, have died
"It would be hard to imagine fuller lies in those led by arch and art paul to giants of the art world who died within hours of each other saturday morning both of them had been ill archie was ninety six art paul was ninety three so they had had very fruitful lives and very influential lives art shay was a photographer who died in his home in deerfield surrounded by some of the two million or more photos he had taken through his life he was there for most of the prominent events of the twentieth century met many of the century's most important people john fitzgerald kennedy merlin brando martin luther king gwendolyn brooks ernest hemingway carl sandberg james baldwin ann landers and roger ebert was roger who once set of arts photography that it quote shakes you up up sets you down gently pats you on the head and then kicks you in the ass art paul was sitting in an office in the loop he was born on the south side raised in rogers park was incredibly talented at sullivan high school and received a scholarship to the art institute he then came back went to the institute of design was freelance illustrator and designer with a little tiny office.