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I couldn't get James Baldwin's recording of poetry but the audio of this tape is loud and clear/unacademic I struggle thru student rap/bs/healing forces/love and understanding voices are coming in to me like milk/thank-you Kalumu
— francy stoller
THANK-YOU,we're listening again,so sorry
— francy stoller
Cryptic/Denzel as MalcolmX/We have a recording upstate of Malcolm X:J ames Baldwin wanted to write the film script but could not/now we cannot . covet any Poet(Eugene B.Redmond said that)----keep up the staff
— francy stoller
what i found interesting was baldwin challenging malcolm x - doing so in the spirit of love, particularly malcolm's notions of manhood, which, in this country, are primarily rooted in white patriarchy, an extension of white supremacy, which serves capitalism, the basis of which comes from the expolitation of african people.

baldwin respected malcolm x profoundly, yet articulated his own ideas of equality, freedom & power; he said, "we have decide what we want!" he is brilliant, courageous, insightful, sensitive & vulnerable. both men speak truth to power.

— mark tuggle
This is unsettling/the voice of Malcolm sounds like Denzel Washington/now I love James Balwin/but I'm related to poetry and my frame of reference is that I'm a poor-reader/Jewess and very confused from Independent art for forty years/my husband Stephen Stoller is a painter and sculptor/we have 20 kids including grandbabies and inlaws/we are dedicated to family and art/is it Denzel/did four people write this rap/is James Baldwin represented as a man who is too humble to write the Malcolm X film script-speak to me please Mark Tuggle/Kalumu/Poet Lewis
— francy stoller
this was not the voice of denzel. the debate featured three men, the name of the other man, who supported the sit-in movement & was, in many ways, from this writer's 3rd eye, suffering from internalized racism, i've forgotten. yes, baldwin wrote a screenplay about malcolm but the producers wanted creative control. baldwin refused to compromise his artistic integrity & cultura dignity. both baldwin & el-shabazz are my heroes!   
 
— mark tuggle