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89: When Justice Never Comes How Can We Begin Again? A Look at America Through The Life of James Baldwin with Dr. Eddie Glaude

No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp

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Baldwin's Call to Continue to Begin Again

The last interview Baldwin gives before he dies is in 1987. He says, I felt like a broken motor. And if you refuse abdication, then you begin again. In my case, drink a little Jameson, dust your knees off and join the fray. That line about begin again comes after a description of what happened in the aftermath of the civil rights movement.

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