Honoring James Baldwin as More Than a Legend
Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll preview a symposium on the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin. We’ll also find out why more than 500 tuba players are expected to gather in Rockefeller Center on Sunday.
The writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin said his mission was to “bear witness to the truth,” and he did so in ways that were impassioned, influential and enduring.
Baldwin will be the subject of a symposium at the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday where writers and artists will talk about his legacy.
Here is a preview from my colleague Melissa Guerrero, who spoke with some of them: In the 1980s, as a sophomore majoring in art history and African American studies at Smith College, Thelma Golden encountered one professor who was different from the others — “one, truly, of the first living artists that I had the occasion to be able to have a sustained engagement with,” she said.
