News about James Baldwin

Efeso Collins, a New Zealand Greens MP, died after participating in a charity run in Auckland. After running in the ChildFund Water Run, a fundraiser for Pacific communities, the 49-year-old collapsed in Auckland on Wednesday morning.

Billy Porter will appear in and write a forthcoming biopic about civil rights activist James Baldwin. According to Variety, Porter, 53, will be playing Baldwin in lieu of co-writing the film with Dan McCabe. The film will be based on James Baldwin's book A Biography, written by Baldwin's longtime friend and former assistant David Lemming in 1994.

The matter of bigotry is always present in this drama, and Othello's touching address of his wooing of Desdemona - 'he loved me for the risks I had witnessed, and she loved her that she pity them' - is met with bigoted yelps. Roderigo is a noose. Othello, however, is a general, and his eloquent addresses her this nobility, and only yobbish villains regard him as a sort of savage. Yet, Clint Dyer, the first black director to direct a major production of the National Theatre, reveals that his Othello has an inherent danger, even to his fellow soldiers. Giles Terera opens with a spear-carrying dance and then progresses to a slinky athleticism.

A book describing 9/11 first responders as "not human" and "menaces" was once offered by the military's equity chief. This latest revelation comes as the Pentagon started an investigation into Kelisa Wing's tweets, in which she used terms such as 'Karen' and 'CAUdacity' to describe white people. Wing recommended the 2015 book Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates while representing the Pentagon on two occasions, according to Fox News. Wing has been with the DoD for 16 years and was promoted to DEI chief in December 2021. She was described as being "in every facet of DoDEA, from curriculum and assessment to recruiting and professional development," according to a press release announcing her appointment in the Department of Defense's Education Activity section in December 2021. Wing, a US Army veteran, is responsible in part for 'planning, directing, coordinating, and coordinating preschool education for children of Department of Defense service members who otherwise would not have access to high-quality public education.' Coates wrote about how to tell the difference between the police officer who shot and killed Prince Jones in Maryland in September 2000 and others who rushed toward the fires on 9/11. The first responders,' Coates, were not human to me. They were black, white, or whatever; they were natural disasters; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, and without exception.'