My Generation Can Learn a Lot From James Baldwin
His words remind us that in our history, there is hope
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7 min readJun 10, 2019
There’s a reason why James Baldwin is my Twitter avatar. I read “Sonny’s Blues” when I was 13, and there was something I loved so much about how he wrote about the Black community. Oftentimes, when there is a documentation of our trauma, especially by people outside of our community, we are…