Lewis Latimer House Museum: "Baldwin's Fire Baptized Truth: To Be Pentecostal Preacher and A Questioning Artist" - 11/17/21

[Image Description: A photograph of James Baldwin, wearing sunglasses, a long coat with fur cuffs and collar, a black suit and tie, and a white shirt, standing in front of a diner. To his right behind the diner window, which has a painting of an ice cream sundea on it, is a white male waiter. Superimposed onto the photograph’s bottom reads in white text “James Baldwin’s America: Both Light and Dark Reading & Discussion Series,” “September-November 2021,” and “ Virtual Events on Wednesday Evenings 5:00-6:30pm.” In the bottom righthand corner is Lewis Latimer House Museum’s logo made of two orange-yellow triangles, one smaller than the other, almost like mountain peaks, with “Lewis Latimer House Museum” written in white text.]

Baldwin's Fire Baptized Truth: To Be Pentecostal Preacher and A Questioning Artist
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
5-6pm EST
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Despite not having as much of a focus in many studies about Baldwin, his religious, specifically Pentecostal, background influenced and shaped much of his writing. We will look at previous works and excerpts from Go Tell It On the Mountain to discuss how the tensions between religion and art shaped much of Baldwin's views on truth and love, and how the two shape our current cultural politics.

This Reading & Discussion series is supported by Humanities NY.

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