The Towering Irrelevance

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James Baldwin’s 1963 documentary Take This Hammer, in which he explores the African American experience in San Francisco, California. Many of the more radical statements made by members the community were cut from the film so that it would be able to pass censors and make broadcast. Fifty-three years later and we still have so far to go to change so much the better.

#5 encapsulates a lot of Baldwin’s essays and letters pretty succinctly.

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