Nearly every Monday evening since the start of the fall semester, the Lotus Collective, a campus activist organization, has been hosting readings, discussions, and screenings at Kelly Writers House honoring the life and work of James Baldwin.
Jennie Fan, a Lotus member and first-year undeclared student, says Baldwin came to her right when she really needed him. She says “the honesty with which he approaches his writing” has helped her make sense of the complex, ever-changing, and at times unjust world.
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