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Prince Shakur is a queer, Jamaican-American author, freelance journalist, videomaker, and NY Times recognized organizer. His writings range from op-eds in Teen Vogue to features on the violent impacts of policing and cultural essays that delve into black icons, like Bob Marley or Huey Newton. In 2017, his video series, Two Woke Minds, earned him the Rising Star Grant from GLAAD. As an organizer, he brought Black Lives Matter to his university campus, organized for labor rights in Seattle, disrupted a Bill Clinton speech in 2016, did solidarity work at the US/Mexican border, and organized with Black Queer Intersectional Collective during the height of the George Floyd protests.

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By the time James Baldwin met Alain on a beach in Cannes in the summer of 1967, he had already built a life around a particular kind of love. Love as rescue. Love as the thing that arrives younger, more beautiful, and more pliable than the world that has spent decades trying to break you. Baldwin was forty-three. Alain; perhaps eighteen or nineteen. Bernard Hassell, who was there, described the mo

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