Gerald Early

Professor @WUSTL, essayist and American culture critic, two-time Grammy nominee, editor @TCRWUSTL, a frequent talking head for @KenBurns

[St. Louis Public Radio @stlpublicradio]

Meet Dr. Mati Hlatshwayo Davis, the first Black woman to serve as director of the St. Louis Department of Health. Reporter @Petit_Smudge asked her about her plans to make the city a healthier place. https://t.co/SrWMwljYjt

[Criterion Collection @Criterion]

Looking for some Halloween costume ideas? 🦇

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[The Common Reader @TCRWUSTL]

TCR Editor @GeraldEarlySTL talks with @esglaude about the enduring legacy of James Baldwin. A binding, vigorous conversation!

https://t.co/JZq8NGvtkg

[Andrew D. Martin @WashUChancellor]

Outstanding achievements. Congrats to @SamFoxSchool's Weicong Huang and John Whitaker for earning national honors for their innovative proposals that offer solutions for ecological restoration and beyond. https://t.co/52fVixrcph

[Gerald Early @GeraldEarlySTL]

Lashana Lynch's turn as the Black 007 was just a cheap PC decoration to get the movie some press "controversy." She was simply a poor sidekick. The insecure Black woman when she thinks she is being demoted. The angry Black woman when she kills the racist scientist. Jeez!

[Gerald Early @GeraldEarlySTL]

Last week, for St. Louis County Library, I interviewed Black Scottish novelist/poet Jackie Kay about her new book, a biography of blues singer Bessie Smith, a different approach but rewarding.

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[Gerald Early @GeraldEarlySTL]

@T_Blanchard Congratulations about the Met opening. Well-deserved and long-overdue for Black composers

[Gerald Early @GeraldEarlySTL]

@KenBurns @DanRafael1 @PBS Great film, Ken. I feel proud to have been a part of it.

[Gerald Early @GeraldEarlySTL]

Of the European actors of the 1960s I recall, Alain Delon, Marcello Mastroianni, Max Von Sydow, Jean-Louis Trintignant, et al., Jean-Paul Belmondo was my favorite. I just loved That Man from Rio when I was a kid.
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[Gerald Early @GeraldEarlySTL]

Read my latest @TCRWUSTL about a book that needs to be read today. Pearl S. Buck's American Argument, her very engaging conversation with Essie Robeson, wife of Paul Robeson. Ahead of its time (1949).
https://t.co/IPyhX17mbK

[Gerald Early @GeraldEarlySTL]

The punishment for vaccine avoidance is stigmatizing and second-class citizenship, stigmatizing a stigmatized people. Marx said, history first as tragedy, then as farce.
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[Gerald Early @GeraldEarlySTL]

Blacks have been guinea pigs before. They have been stigmatized before and still are. If people will not take the vaccine for its virtues, now they will be forced to take it to avoid punishment.
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[Gerald Early @GeraldEarlySTL]

In our moral quest to stigmatize the unvaccinated, Blacks, who figure prominently among them, present a problem. Their skepticism is far from irrational.
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[Gerald Early @GeraldEarlySTL]

The long ball hitter's motto:
Be not afraid of any pitcher
No matter what his size
If Danger threatens, call on me
And I will equalize
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[Gerald Early @GeraldEarlySTL]

When @ronaldacunajr24 went down, the Braves looked dead. Then they got Soler, Duvall, & Pederson, longball guys and got their mojo back. The longball is baseball's gun, the equalizer.
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[Gerald Early @GeraldEarlySTL]

The breakthrough infections that hospitalized @RevJJackson and his wife will surely make Blacks even more skeptical of the vaccines. Unsurprising distrust.
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[Gerald Early @GeraldEarlySTL]

August 4 was Louis Armstrong @TCM. Among the films was the 1966 drama "A Man Called Adam" with Sammy Davis Jr and Cicely Tyson. Armstrong was the best actor in it. He was a great intuitive performer. Such a genius!
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[Gerald Early @GeraldEarlySTL]

@TCM just aired "Tennessee Johnson," a 1942 biopic about Andrew Johnson. Blacks and White liberals protested the film on its release for being too kind to Johnson and too harsh on Thad Stevens. But it is one of those White Unity, WWII movies.
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[Gerald Early @GeraldEarlySTL]

The U.S.'s moral claims are undermined by its internal politics and a contradictory foreign policy. The wars are unpersuasive ideologically, badly improvised and are impossible to exit cleanly unless the enemy is "converted" by dollars.
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