James Baldwin's Black Lives Blues Are Mine

The plot

Natasha Phicil is the Columbia College student producer. She's a proud, young Haitian-American. This student-produced 5-minute trailer & music video to Stan West's "James Baldwin's Black Lives Blues Are Mine" is ripped from today's & yesterday's headlines. In style & content it's both experimental & traditional. Its jazzy dialogue against a blues soundtrack, paints a poetic musical picture. On one hand, West explains his first & only meeting with the famous Black gay writer who is known for his piercing essays. Baldwin wrote a lot about police brutality. Tampa-based author-journalist West who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from University of New Orleans, wrote news stories about police misconduct. His Chicago Defender cover story features West's Black-Mexican-Italian-trans-rabbi cousin's views on this issue & others. Both writers intersect their writings with their gay & straight relatives. This is their story.

• Age Rating Rated R/Adult (17+)
• Running time 00:05:51 mins



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