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Oil Painting, James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin- The Fire Next Time
Oil on Canvas
24" x 24"
2020

I read James Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time" during the summer of social unrest after the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota by the police officer Derek Chauvin. It's a very powerful book and opened my eyes to black people have had to experience in the United States for far too long.