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Raoul Peck on his Ernest Cole film: ‘I wanted to give him the total podium’

The director of I Am Not Your Negro focuses on the South African photographer who covered apartheid in his homeland before working in the US

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Lynne Kirwin obituary

Other lives: Theatre publicist who worked on productions at the National, the Young Vic and the Donmar in the 1980s, 90s and 00s

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Ta-Nehisi Coates describes what he saw in Palestine as ‘apartheid’, resembling America’s segregated Jim Crow South

In May 2023, renowned Black American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates spent ten days in the West Bank and Israel, where he spent half his time with Breaking the Silence, a group of former Israeli soldiers who now oppose the occupation.

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Inside Jack Whitten’s contribution to American contemporary art

As Jack Whitten exhibition ‘Speedchaser’ opens at Hauser & Wirth, London, and before a major retrospective at MoMA opens next year, we explore the American artist's impact

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Mr Loverman: a beautifully realised TV drama that is faithful to the novel – with a few subtle changes

The first episode of the TV adaptation of Mr Loverman is preceded by the quotation: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Those words, voiced by protagonist Barry, belong to writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin, from his 1962…

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‘For too long literature has been defined by one set of people’: writing back to the empire and beyond

Black novelists, poets and playwrights have a long history of reclaiming narratives, the theme of this year’s Black History Month. Novelist Ben Okri looks at where this tradition has come from – and where it’s going next

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‘A temple of liberation’: behind the unwavering rise of the National Black Theatre

Created in 1968 and making groundbreaking strides, the organisation is looking to further expand

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‘There’s a lot of James Baldwin in this show’: Glenn Ligon and identity politics

In a show at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam museum, the leading US artist highlights how identity, culture and history in art is contingent on who is doing the looking

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Intrigue, desire … and awful landlords: why queer authors are suddenly writing about houses

A settled domestic life can seem like a pipe dream for some LGBTQ+ writers, especially in the midst of a housing crisis. Yet novelists such as Booker nominated Yael van der Wouden are finding that inspiration begins at home

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Sadler’s Wells East unveils debut programme for east London opening

Inaugural season to include adaptation of James Baldwin novel and an immersive rave

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On my radar: Raymond Antrobus’s cultural highlights

The poet on the power of abstract art, Shakespeare in British Sign Language and the ‘articulated rage’ of James Baldwin

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Fear, queer love and self-loathing: James Baldwin’s mid-century masterpiece, Giovanni’s Room

Our cultural touchstones series looks at influential books.

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David Heycock obituary

Other lives: BBC TV producer who worked on Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation and Alistair Cooke’s America

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TV tonight: Snoop Dogg, Tom Cruise and Billie Eilish close the Olympics

Paris promises a spectacular end to the games, including a Hollywood stunt. Plus: rooftop races and fisticuffs in Vienna Blood. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Daughters to Three Thousand Years of Longing: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

A documentary about a radical approach to rehabilitation is inspirational and heartbreaking in equal measure, while Idris Elba plays a genie as Mad Max director George Miller lets his imagination run riot

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Strange Relations by Ralf Webb review – brave new queer world

A richly rewarding account of how four literary giants created an erotic revolution in post-war American culture

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ME: we need more funding and more research

Letters: people with myalgic encephalomyelitis and their carers are calling for a reversal of decades of underfunding

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The week in audio: The Lost Archive of James Baldwin; Extreme: Muscle Men; Paris Olympics – review

The American writer’s personal effects, languishing in a French lock-up, are only part of a touching story. Plus, an entertaining tale of 80s bodybuilding, and gymnastics on the radio

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Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin review – an inspiring homage

Part church service, part exploration of Black identity, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter’s tribute to Baldwin revisits his writing in the light of Black Lives Matter

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The gang that couldn’t shoot straight

Trump embarrasses himself at the NABJ conference while Vance can’t escape his cat lady obsession

The Guardian - UK

Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin review – a fire reignited

Baldwin’s stinging words on race and America are matched with the kind of musical eloquence that the great writer himself so admired

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Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America by Ralf Webb review – sex and the literary lions

A concise study of Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, Carson McCullers and James Baldwin, and how their sexuality informed their work, veers between lecture-hall lit crit and novelistic immediacy

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No Name in the Street; Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin – review

In the centenary of his birth year, the author’s voice is as necessary, human and sharp as ever in a reprinted short story collection and memoir from the 1960s and 70s

The Guardian - UK

James Baldwin taught us that identities can help us to locate ourselves. But they trap us too

The writer, who would have turned 100 this week, spoke to, and from, America’s moral conscience

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There is Light Somewhere at the Hayward Gallery: an emotional exploration of history and belonging

There is Light Somewhere, the title of the latest show by conceptual artist Tavares Strachan at the Hayward Gallery in London, is borrowed from a James Baldwin quote. In his final book of essays, Nothing Personal (1964), the American novelist and social critic wrote:

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