Encounters with James Baldwin: celebrating 100 years

Celebrating the centenary of the birth of the trailblazing African American author, Encounters with James Baldwin is a wide-ranging volume of short essays, reflections, interviews and poetry. This moving collection demonstrates the significant legacy of the writer and activist who spoke truth to power during the era of the fight for Black civil liberties in the US, and after. In this literary anthology, over 30 contributors reveal the influence of Baldwin’s thought, speech and writing to their personal journeys and their awareness of the need for social justice. Introduction by Stella Dadzie                              Three Memories of Baldwin by Rashidah Ismaili AbuBakr     Blackspace by Victor Adebowale                          Talking about Baldwin with Victor Adebowale                  The World is White No Longer by Toyin Agbetu           Uncle Jimmy’s Calling by Rosanna Amaka           The Spirit of James Baldwin by Michelle Yaa Asantewa          Mea Culpa by Eugen Bacon                             Meeting Jimmy Baldwin in Paris by Lindsay Barrett  Genius as Moral Courage by Gabriella Beckles-Raymond  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Phone Calls by Alan Bell  Never Make Peace with Mediocrity by Selina Brown  Searching for the Centennial Man by Michael Campbell  In a Photograph with James Baldwin by Fred D’Aguiar  Fires in Our Time by Thomas Glave                  Can I get an Amen, Somebody? by Sonia Grant         What Kind of World is This? by Zita Holbourne                The Inspirational Blues by Paterson Joseph                 Letter to My Daughter by Peter Kalu                     James Baldwin Weeps with the Weight of Tiredness by Roy McFarlane                                            What’s Love Got to Do with It? by Ronnie McGrath        Revisiting James Baldwin by Michael McMillan                Six Degrees of James Baldwin by Tony Medina                Of James Baldwin and Futures Not Seen by Bill V. Mullen   The Fire is Now by Nducu wa Ngugi                         If Sonny’s Blues were a Song… by Lola Oh                 Fahrenheit 1492 by Ewaure X. Osayande                 Passing by Nii Ayikwei Parkes                          The Amen Corner by Anton Phillips                         A Higher Calling by Ray Shell                                  For Jimmy by SuAndi                                   Wherefore, Nuncle? by Tade Thompson                         Letter to My Brother by Patrick Vernon                         James Baldwin and Black British Civil Rights by Tony Warner