Jamie McGhee is a novelist, playwright, and essayist. For her fiction, she was named a James Baldwin Fellow in Saint-Paul de Vence, France, and a Sacatar Fellow in Itaparica, Brazil. With ties to the eastern US, she is now based in Berlin, Germany.
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After a speech at UMass Amherst on February 28, 1984, James Baldwin was asked by a student: 'You said that the liberal façade and being a liberal is not enough. Well, what is? What is necessary?' Baldwin responded, 'Commitment. That is what is necessary.... SEE MORE