J. Quinton Johnson talks role in veteran tale, Last Flag Flying
November 9, 2017
The film stars Laurence Fishburn, (Mueller) Bryan Cranston (Sal) and Steve Carrell (Doc) in performances that are striking and eerily familiar.
Breaking News
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Vietnam War
MLK: Beyond Vietnam Speech 50 Years Later
April 5, 2017
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke his first public antiwar speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” in front of 3,000 people at Riverside Church in New York City.
Re-Reading and Reflecting on James Baldwin: Rethinking Race and America
August 31, 2016
The last time I saw James Baldwin was at a memorial colloquium on Hoyt Fuller at Cornell University in 1984 at which we were both presenting. He was talking, as always, about the problematic reality and responsibility of race and writing, about his continuing amazement at White folk’s cultivated self-delusions concerning what they do for and to other people, and the harried and hassled hope he still held for America in spite of its chronic and seemingly incurable race- induced sickness. This re-reading of Baldwin in this his month of birth, August 2 (1924- 1987), is done in respectful remembrance
Veteran’s Day for a Black Soldier
November 12, 2015
On November 11, we remember the Veterans who put their lives on the line serving our country and protecting the borders of our political interactions. Some carve the day out to barbecue and shake hands to say “thank you” to the men and women who served the country. But, beyond the handshakes and the one-day of recognition, what happens to the every day lives of these veterans? “It’s just one day that people get excited and then the rest of the year they forget about us. It doesn’t really mean anything for me and isn’t anything special,” said Ronald Jackson,