tell us about that. >> that's the power of james baldwin. so much about this book you could take it and set it in 2018, which as a filmmaker would be easier for me, i could point my camera any direction and not have to clear a street or sign. to me the power in which he was writing about was how these problems have persist fotd allow t -- persisted. i just spoke to the family in this film that it could be any family today. >> how do you address that issue going after the justice system while telling a beautiful love story? >> to me, it's just relying in the very evocative voice of james baldwin. it has this one voice of james bald kwhin baldwin which is lush and sensual, but just as lush in speaking about the injustices of black people living in this country. and they say a story is the best vehicle for an idea, i think a relationship is the best vehicle for empathy. i think the tragedy arises because you see how innocent and pure love between our two main characters. >> and it's able to sustain despite all those things thrown against them.

it's everyone from james baldwin to jesse baker and others have gone to france and other european countries. it's a different system that seems to them it didn't matter or didn't matter as much. the one thing i would say is that thereld is an american i cl it resurrecting slavery i write about an african american exceptionalism. the united states unfortunately gets used like the global racist bogeyman and we have to be skeptical of the narrative to understand for whom it works and what doesn't. white people are included for sure but i also reflect on my experiences for us to learn about these issues. it's how it functions today and it's probably not a book for the white nationalists i'm not trying to change people who are committed to the white supremacist. but if you understand that white dominance is not something to be proud of as far as this legacy that needs to be challenged, this book is for you. i don't want to act as though everyone is equally exposed. we are exposed because people of color experience racism and we also have knowledge about it. i didn't have much of a personal exper

and james baldwin was born in hall-- harlem and he got books right here from the schaumburg center. sonny rollins lived in many different places around here, but no more than a block or two from the schaumburg center. when we met with him we were packing up his papers. it was amazing to talk to him about what it meant to him to have him back here. this means a lot to us. it means a lot to the people whose papers we have the pleasure of holding and i hope it means a lot to you. i want to welcome this evening the first lady of the city of new york. where is she? thank you. [applause]. we love having you. we had to do last year for book club on the stage and we want to do that again, just hint. we love having you here in thinking about schaumburg. on going to let you get started here with this wonderful colored girls event. as you know colored girls was named after for colored girls who consider suicide and as a poet myself and these are some of our great thinkers and writers today, so please enjoy them and i will see you later. [applause]. >> now, please welcome veronica chambers. [ap

but another 20 years, we're going to produce our duke ellingtons, our own mary beardons, our james baldwins, people of that stature in film. (jim jarmusch) for us in new york at the time, in the late seventies, it was an idea kind of related to the music scene at the time, which was that we are not virtuoso filmmakers, but we have something we'd like to express. and that desire to express it was more important than having a more professional attitude, or having a lot of experience. (jim jarmusch) when i started thinking about "stranger than paradise," there were severe limitations as far as how much money i could get to make a film like that. (jim stark) "stranger than paradise" cash cost was $160,000, and it grossed many times more than that. jim's pacing was very slow and deliberate. there was a kind of irony in how he approached the world, which was not typical of filmmaking. there's a meandering approach that lets you decide what you thought was important about the story. the style of the movie and the sensibility of it were clearly emanated from the personality of jim jarmusch but also

baldwin won five national karting championships. before taking the first steps onto formula 1, following in the tyre tracks of lewis hamilton until... he ran out of money. which is why his career rounded the bend and took off in a new direction. usually the guys with talent get the money but not everyone gets notice. esports has its own market and fans and gets a lot of people the opportunity to compete at the highest level even if they are not born and spoon—fed into a very rich family. this sleepy muse in central london is the last place you would expect to take on a motor racing style of the future. this is where they train at one of the uk's first hubs for esports. james is hoping to become a full—time professional realising his racing dream with the veloce team. unlike other sports, you do need to have some skill and techniques to real drivers and also surprisingly fitness. this is something people don't associate with gaming and i think it is important to know that myself and a lot of other drivers are in the gym three tim

on the fast track to the top, james baldwin won five national karting championships. before taking the first steps onto formula 1, flying in the tightjoseph lewis hamilton until... he ran out of money. which is why his career went around the bend and took off in a new direction. usually the guys for the talk of the money but not everyone gets notice. he sports has its own market and fans and gets a lot of people the opportunity to compete at the highest level even if they are not worn and spoon fed into a very rich family. the slippery news in central london is the last place you would expect to take on a motor racing style of the future. this is where the night train at one of the uk's first hubs free sports. james is open to become a full—time professional realising his racing dream with the team. unlike other sports, you do need to have some skill and techniques to real drivers and also surprisingly fitness. this is something people don't associate with gaming and i think it is important to note that myself and a lot of other drivers are in the gym three times a

baldwin. how do you see him? how do you see him and then with that generation as a gay guy that was also dismissed for the last 40 years of his life. and those three black guys that were the most interesting w e-beat a boy and a sociologist but what baldwin does is to say something that was truly prophetic. so while the great achievement and challenge of american history is the creation of a democracy in the status population and that pales in compound - - comparison to share that democracy with black men. so the belief in the biracial society with the mid- idea none of the founders could imagine jefferson included when it makes it even more hypocritical. partly because to be on different sides of gender and racial identities and americans will solve the racial problem and that speaks to us. . >> i know and it shines through. but to be so canonized and speaking as the 99 percent and here's what we don't necessarily think about it was ludicrous to believe all men are created equal so can you di

. >> i have to ask you about -- james baldwin novel being turned into this film, barry jenkins who everybody at this table loves. what are you hearing? >> i haven't seen it yet. not many people have seen it yet. but i'm really excited. maybe more so than holiday movies coming up because it's a combination. it's -- we've got a great director, great actors, unknown actors, or at least pretty unknown to american audiences that is exciting. i like when a movie isn't celebrity. somebody might make themselves a star and it's based on a novel by james baldwin, one of our great african-americans. >> great american author. >> so it's standing up to be not only enough tthe best contender >> we didn't talk about "roma" or "a star is born." a lot of people will be stuck in a movie theater. dana stevens. thank you. >>> a big event at a fame outs football stadium bought e.t.'s nancy odell to south dakota. >> notre dame football teams have seen their teams have never seen their concerts performed here until now. we're backstage with garth brooks. he becomes the first heartist ever ♪ ♪ ♪ thunder road

baldwin but he was complicated. to process and a few weeks after that to introduce civil rights legislation and to be open-minded and fighting his own instincts. >> so that new biography to be a political and civil rights work and your book as well why do you think it has taken this long to write about the relationship between the kennedys and the civil rights movement? . >> good question may be sentimentality. there was a gray idealization of the kennedys afterwards and this is why kennedy was so popular in the black community. not because they instinctively loved him. they didn't. king was horrified when kennedy was made attorney general he was associated with the joe mccarthy and was thought of as antiunion and also i did not realize that white liberals loathed mccarthy for one reason but blacks loathed him for another for him anti- communism was an additional dimension because many black leaders were communist or leftist like belafonte, robeson and w e-b-letter devoid they were very weary of the kennedys. so the

james baldwin in 1982, was it? 84. that had to the one of his last appearances. >> living in paris, did a program called literature in exile and we had roberto padilla from cuba and james baldwin and i'm blanking on the third person but they were the two you remember mostly and it was baldwin's last appearance. >> what did you get right 35 years ago that you are still doing today? >> i would like to think it is because we are inclusive. we -- our mantra is something for everyone. we operate under we want to create the biggest possible under which the entire south florida community can feel like they are a part of. it is not elitist, not too this or that but something for everyone and it mirrors the diversity that is miami and that is what we have done. we become the community center that is always vibrant in any community. public spaces are what people love. look at people congregate, to amplify what and why no said. and nearly days, we invited author, we would be happy to send that author down. people had no idea seri

to get the attention of the kennedy administration there is nobody like a james baldwin as a leading black intellectual it is a reminder of how we have american history and the ongoing effort to make such history again. . >> i just want to ask a question of the pessimistic things you are saying. and a couple of kids in their thirties. was successful college educated. and to feel bad about what i should do to become politically active recently and and what the future holds and what you think for the next five or ten years. >> by the way, it worries me of heightened anxiety it is reflected in the pool numbers i cited earlier on the racial issue how many americans right now think we are in a bad place for guy reminded how many people lost faith in major american institutions approval 12 percent it is unbelievable. and of course, trust from banks to wall street to major institutions and the church and on and on. now the supreme court in the aftermath of the kavanaugh episode, trust in that court. see you are right. . . . . but you look at the power of the fact we are a growing population

what's interesting about sentimentality, craig, is that it always it leads to my mind and james baldwin's mind, functions as a mask for cruelty. and here we see its consequences in detail. >> you are a professor at one of this country's most elite universities, and i feel a bit awkward asking you the question as you sit in front of the prince toton logo, but does thi story to you reveal a problem with the system at large and how elite colleges and universities, how they attract, how they recruit specifically students of color? >> well, perhaps, but i think it also reveals something more systemic, craig, and that has something to do with the charter school movement. what we're seeing with this particularly grotesque example of the t.m. landry school, i think we could probably find across the country. if we look at the los angeles-based alliance, you know, public schools, their kids aren't doing as well in college once they get there. when we look at the kip schools, there was in its earlier days a question about whether or not their kids could succeed in college, and what are we finding? w

baldwin won 5 national karting championships before taking the first steps on to formula 1, following perhaps in the tyre tracks of lewis hamilton, until... he ran out of money. which is why his career rounded the bend and took off in a new direction. it is usually guys with the talent that get the money but not everyone gets noticed. e—sports is its own sport and has got its own market and fans. it gives alot of people the opportunity to compete at the highest level, even if they are not born and spoonfed into a very rich family. the sleepy mews in central london is the last place you would expect to take on a motor racing star of the future, but this is where they now train, at the uk's first e—sports racing hub. let's do it. james is soon hoping to become a full—time professional, realising his racing dream with the veloce team. unlike other e—sports sports, in sim racing you do need to have similar skill and techniques to real drivers, and also surprisingly, fitness. it is something people to associate with gaming and it is important to know that me, myself and other drive

on the fast track to the top, james baldwin won 5 national karting championships before taking the first steps on to formula 1, following perhaps in the tyre tracks of lewis hamilton, until... he ran out of money. which is why his career rounded the bend and took off in a new direction. it is usually guys with the talent that get the money, but not everyone gets noticed. e—sports is its own sport and has got its own market and fans. it gives alot of people the opportunity to compete at the highest level, even if they are not born and spoonfed into a very rich family. a sleepy mews in central london is the last place you would expect to take on a motor racing star of the future, but this is where they now train, at the uk‘s first e—sports racing hub. let‘s do it. james is soon hoping to become a full—time professional, realising his racing dream with the veloce team. unlike other e—sports sports, in sim racing you do need to have similar skill and techniques to real drivers, and also surprisingly, fitness. it is something people don‘t associate with gaming and it is importan

i grew up reading richard wright and james baldwin. richard wright visited us when i was a child in ghana. so i had no everyday experience of race in america and that was one of the things for me, that's been one of the great sort of privileges of my americanization was coming to make friends with that and all we have in common -- i mean, you always have lots of things in common with everybody, but the main thing we had in common as it were as a starting point is that we were both black and that doesn't work in africa. you can't say hey, we're both black, because you know, first of all, i'm brown, i'm not black in africa, but second, you know, everybody on both sides of twas black. so that was one big thing. i had some theoretical appreciation of this, as i say, because my father was a friend of a ghanan citizen who died in the war and we were friends with african-american writers. but there's a difference between the theoretical grasp and then walking up the street in new haven into the part of town i was living in when i first came a

james baldwin also testified at that hearing. he told congress, yes, you should do this, but you should understand my history contains the truth about america. it is going to be hard to teach it. i paraphrase baldwin's words with the title of my book, "long road to hard truth." he talked about how this museum or this institute should study why all of his heroes seem to end up dead, referencing metger evers, emmett till, malcolm x, so many others. 17 days after he said that to congress, reverend dr. martin luther king was assassinated. the legislation didn't pass. no museum was created. there was another effort in the 1970s and '80s to create a national museum located at wilberforce, hoohio. there were those who opposed it. the plan was to make it part of the national parks service, because the smithsonian at that point wasn't really interested in creating a national museum. but the parks service said, well, we're not really in the museum business, so we don't want it either. so, it really couldn't gain a foothold within the feder

baldwin attached that saying the city too busy making money to hate. and so you understand that as being important. and an important part of the counter argument against the most egregious forms of racism. and we look at mississippi and we're looking at the campaign that kemp ran in georgia, these are people who are saying we're not thinking about that. the investment that they have and hollywood and films and everything being made in atlanta, we talk to even about the issue with the trans-bathroom bill worried about the naacp. so these sort of things lead big corporate investment interest that have given people a reason to say maybe we don't want to go down this road. the difference in the south is the people who are willing to go down to the last dollar to sacrifice everything to maintain superiority over black people and the people saying i will only sacrifice some of my money to maintain -- >> it is interesting because you have in the south, there is a diliniation between the old south states like mississippi which struggles might illy, the poor es

baldwin, josephine baker and other african-americans had gone to france and other european countries and experienced a different kind of racial system where it seemed to them that the race didn't matter of didn't matter as much. one thing i would say is that there is an american, i call it my first book "resurrecting slavery" i write about a kind of african american exceptionalism that only really exist outside of the united states, i can african american privilege where our kind of contextual acceptance in places like france, for example, allowed for the country to kind of brush their own issues of racism under the rug. so if you're black or brown person who is actually french in france racism does impact your life and the united states and partially gets used as like the global racist bogeyman to kind of brush issues of racism that exist in general and globally under the rug i think we have to be skeptical of that narrative and kind of understand from the works of whom it doesn't work. >> host: back to this cup is this book how to be less stupid written to white people or is it wri

james baldwin said to me with martin luther king, jr. in 1961 he said seg rugratiregation is and the question is how long and expensive the funeral will be. and here we are still paying for it. >> you know, willie, i'm always watching ken burn's documentaries but i was watching the baseball, and there were parts with jackie robinson, signing with the dodgers in '45, integrating baseball, and people started talking with tears in their eyes about how baseball led the way in change. and i'm sitting there thinking this was 1945, and here we are in 2018. we have a president of the united states that's making an overt appeal to racism as his final argument to keep the house and to keep the senate. >> and a choice to make that argument when he had a choice to talk about the economy, something that a conventional politician would have ridden all the way to election day and would have focused on that. but he decided it was more inflammatory and more effective to a certain group of people. and maybe it worked in certain places, maybe it worked eno

this is james baldwin — 5 times kart champion who now races on simulators for the velochey team. he works out in the gym and has a special diet. because i found out you need equivalent driving skills and technique to get around. there was a lot of noise, vibration, the chair was shaking. it was too much for me. i went into the wall. it was horrendous was a bit scary. i wrote the car off, for good measure. do you feel the pressure? yes. you can see why he works out and has a special diet. you are physically very fit and mentally how to be alert. it is exhausting just doing that. i know it sounds daft, it is a computer game, essentially. much more than that now. they do need very good driving skills to compete against others around the world. it isa against others around the world. it is a huge business. we will look at it more. but is it sport? he would argue that of course it is because he is competing, physically, mentally, it is a challenge. we will look forward to that tomorrow. the world's first esports hub has opened in this country, in london. thank you. gamblers can bet up

. >> jamie baldwin. james don't give loud speeches : and call people names and i think there's a lesson. if there's a real lesson here, and the false lesson the democrats can take is if we want to beat trump we've got to nominate somebody like trump, that's not it. that's not a formula and look at people who are doing well out there. you look at all these candidates that are running, and i tell my students, one of my favorite moments in history is the ballot in chattanooga and over in chattanooga there's a thing called missionary ridge. it overlooks the city. and the confederates on they held missionary ridge and so general grant comes in with a union army and you got this complex thing and you know sherman was going to attack and it's not going well. and all of a sudden he looks up and these soldiers are going up the ridge in the middle and he looks and says who ordered those soldiers? he said, nobody, general, they went. and that's what i'm telling these democrats now. don't take orders from headquarte

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. >> and we had james baldwin the very first year. without any question and the wholee nation and we are very proud it happens here in miami with a known elitist celebration of books and then for the enjoyment of the public. and with the partners in crime and thatak takes a lot of people and everybody out of love. and we are delighted. >> what was it about the barcelona book fair that inspired you? . >> i saw a big line of people to get into the auditorium and i asked what is that? they set a bookcea fair. they had a lot of books and i said why can't we do this in miami? we can do it outside with great weather and has something very similar with the authors and said yes that is what we need to do. the rest is history and here we are today with over, 600 authors participating over the last weekend this weekend and those in the literary world. . >> on book tv 20 authors in one room and james baldwin in 1982. . >> from paris and they did a program called literature in exile. so those were the two that i remember most. that is just about