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Why James Baldwin’s work is attracting renewed attention

From PBS Newshour: Sunday, August 2nd 2020 marked what would have been literary icon James Baldwin’s 96th birthday, in a year when the resurgence of Black Lives Matter protests across the world has renewed interest in his work. A new book, “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own,” explores Baldwin’s ideas in current context. Amna Nawaz talked to its author, Eddie Glaude Jr. of Princeton University.

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