Your Blogmaster found this Baldwin tribute/photo essay on his daughter Molly Margaret Meyer’s Instagram last week. I was so impressed with its content, presentation, and timeliness that I chose to reprint it here as it originally appeared, reverse type and all. As some of you will remember, Baldwin was arguably the most eloquent Black voice in the United States a half–century ago. His prose has lost nothing of its beauty and relevance today. Excerpts from Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” which first appeared in the November 17, 1962 issue of The New Yorker and was later incorporated into Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, begins this two-part dialogue. Molly’s photographs illustrate selected excerpts and her own comments.
