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James Baldwin

Jake Lamar on his Jazz Noir novel 'Viper's Dream'

by Leo Sidran
September 20, 2023

Writer Jake Lamar talks about growing up in the Bronx, his lifelong love affair with writing, moving to France in the '90s, his career as a novelist, playwright, and cultural critic in Paris, and his new book Viper's Dream, a Jazz Noir crime novel set in the jazz world of Harlem between 1936 and 1961.

Preach Brother Preach: James Cone, Founder of Black Liberation Theology Lights Up the Lessons Taught by James Baldwin and Colin Kaepernick

by Christine Passarella
June 12, 2018

"Every human being is an unprecedented miracle." --James Baldwin In a world of everyday people, we indeed find extraordinary courage and determination. In each of us are gifts we can give to the world to transform, uplift and sustain beauty, love and justice. The men and women who answer this call to be Coltranian ...