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Both Eddie S. Glaude's Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own and Bill V. Mullen's James Baldwin: Living in Fire are organized around what Mullen calls the “arc of change, reflection, and evolution” in Baldwin's life story.
KSL TV OGDEN — Weber State University announced it will offer a Queer Studies minor this fall, which will be a first in Utah. The minor was created to help future professionals work better with diverse groups, and there is also hope that these courses will help more people understand others who may be different from them. "The best place to start to understand is through education," said Sean Childers-Gray from Ogden Pride. He said he has seen the intolerance and lost family along the way, and it meant a lot to him to hear Weber State is offering the new minor.
DON NOBLE: Award-winning author led a complicated life The Tuscaloosa News © Provided by Tuscaloosa News Don Noble Elizabeth Shores is a hard-working, hard-researching author with two previous volumes, both with Alabama connections: a study of the botanist Roland McMillan Harper and “Earline’s Pink Party,” which deals with “The Social Rituals and Domestic Relics of a Southern Woman,” and is set in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. “Shared Secrets” is very different. The subject of her study is Charles Finger, who started life as an Englishman, a student at the Regent Stree...
4:14 The subject of her study is Charles Finger, who started life as an Englishman, a student at the Regent Street Polytechnic Institute in London. There he reveled in the Literary Society, which discussed contemporary writing, paying special attention to writers such as Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Those two writers were known to be gay, but then, and later, Finger and his cohorts steadily see gayness in many other writers: William Morris. Jack London, Sir Richard Burton, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Henry David Thoreau, Richard Halliburton, the painter Grant Wood a...
Michigan native, husband donate $15M to ACLU for LGBTQ rights Associated Press KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The American Civil Liberties Union has named a project addressing LGBTQ and HIV issues after a Michigan native and his husband, officials announced Thursday. The Jon L. Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović LGBTQ & HIV Project is located inside the ACLU Ruth Bader Ginsburg Liberty Center in New York, the ACLU said. The project was created in 1986. Its name change follows a $15 million gift from Stryker and Randjelović to the ACLU Foundation. Stryker is founder and president of the Arcus Foundation...