#harlem: edits

[saturngalore]

LA CHÉRIE NOIRE

[macrolit]

1929 First Edition of Nella Larsen's Passing. Goodness.

[zoelazzeri]

Ben 10 Harlem shake but I tried to loop the animation just to make sure Xlr8 doesn't make the Pingu face and I low key mess it because I can't take the perfect frame

My ben 10 hunger won't let me go,

I'm this close to use this video with different songs by request.

Animation by cartoon network

Aliens here from Ben 10

Feedback, HeatBlast, Bloxx, spidermonkey, XLR8, humungousaur, four arms, Shocksquatch, stinkfly

Gwen, Max, Rook and Ben seems so happy.

[stingrayextraordinaire]

American Girl Moodboards // Claudie Wells

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

(requested by anonymous)

[darlingshane]

jon: 👈👍 👉

[morbid-dreamzz]

read the manga now

[savagebeautyqueen]

[eithereldd]

What have I done.

[ghett0-g0rgeous1989ad]

[thejunkyardafewblocksfromhere]

Remember soaring higher than a cloud Get pretty sentimental now and then The loneliest people in the whole wide world Are the ones you're never going to see again -Harlem Roulette, The Mountain Goats

[malaboos-bodacious-blog]

hey hey hey hey hye hey hey shey yhe heyhey

Harlem Shade Playlist

[ghett0gorgeous]

[goodgarbs]

Events| Join Ron Faison & The Faison Group for The "Black Hollywood" Gala

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ron Faison (@ronfaison) February 17th, New Jersey based promoter and foundation organizer, Ron Faison is hosting a night of glitz, glamour, and old-school vibes at The Black Hollywood Gala – Harlem Nights Edition! Get ready to step back in time and experience the magic of the legendary Harlem Renaissance. This event is all about celebrating the rich…

[jadenvargen]

free online james baldwin stories, essays, videos, and other resources

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James baldwin online archive with his articles and photo archives.

---NOVELS---

Giovanni's room"When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. This book introduces love's fascinating possibilities and extremities."

Go Tell It On The Mountain"(...)Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves."

+bonus: film adaptation on youtube. (if you’re a giancarlo esposito fan, you’ll be delighted to see him in an early preacher role)

Another Country and Going to Meet the Man Another country: "James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit." Going to meet the Man: " collection of eight short stories by American writer James Baldwin. The book, dedicated "for Beauford Delaney", covers many topics related to anti-Black racism in American society, as well as African-American–Jewish relations, childhood, the creative process, criminal justice, drug addiction, family relationships, jazz, lynching, sexuality, and white supremacy."

Just Above My Head"Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses--and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land."

If Beale Street Could Talk"Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions-affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche."

also has a film adaptation by moonlight's barry jenkins

Tell Me How Long the Train's been gone At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty. 

---ESSAYS---

Baldwin essay collection. Including most famously: notes of a native son, nobody knows my name, the fire next time, no name in the street, the devil finds work- baldwin on film

--DOCUMENTARIES--

Take this hammer, a tour of san Francisco.

Meeting the man

--DEBATES:--

Debate with Malcolm x, 1963 ( on integration, the nation of islam, and other topics. )

Debate with William Buckley, 1965. ( historic debate in america. )

Heavily moderated debate with Malcolm x, Charles Eric Lincoln, and Samuel Schyle 1961. (Primarily Malcolm X's debate on behalf of the nation of islam, with Baldwin giving occassional inputs.)

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apart from themes obvious in the book's descriptions, a general heads up for themes of incest and sexual assault throughout his works.