If you have not read Baldwin… you have not read about real life! – @Efabulous1

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What we get today out of reading him is so much more than just eloquent and riveting writing; James Baldwin is also a history teacher. His fiction and nonfiction recount the stories and struggles of African Americans in the first half of the 20th century, and Giovanni’s Room stands as a landmark novel in its representation of homosexuality in a way that seems neither exploitative nor like a simple plot device. 

Introducing Flavorwire Author Club’s February Selection: James Baldwin

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Born Freda Josephine McDonald on June 3, 1906, in St. Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker spent her youth in poverty before learning to dance and finding success on Broadway. In the 1920s she moved to France and soon became one of Europe’s most popular and highest-paid performers. She worked for the French Resistance during World War II, and during the 1950s and ‘60s devoted herself to fighting segregation and racism in the United States.

Josephine Baker died of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 12, 1975, and was buried with military honors.

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Patterns in Paris. 

Photograph by Adam Katz Sinding. 

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