Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #44: James Baldwin at 100

I first came to James Baldwin’s work by reading his essay, “Stranger in the Village.” Up until that point, I was immersed in Malcolm X, Kwame Ture, and Amiri Baraka, mostly. All of whom made abundantly clear to me why the revolution was absolutely inescapable. Too much had happened, too much was happening, and the urgency to be ready to fight was right now. I understood Black militancy as the great unifier. My hopes were tied to the urgency of the call and that it would, could, or should bring the African diaspora together. North American Blacks would unite with Caribbean and Latinx Blacks, Blacks from the continent of Africa would unite with European Blacks, and we would, naturally, take control over our lands and be liberated. The conditions demanded it. Mine was and still is a Pan-African dream…

—Guest Editor Roberto Carlos Garcia

• The Old Testament Prophet: On the 100th Birthday of James Arthur Baldwin by Roberto Carlos Garcia, Guest Editor
• Beauford Delaney’s Dark Rapture, 1941, Ruminates on His Conception by Tangela Mitchell
• A Pilgrimage to Chez Baldwin by Simeon Marsalis
• Amen, 2024 after James Baldwin by Mahogany L. Browne
• Dancing with the Spirits: Home to Haiti by Myriam J. Chancy
• Baldwin’s Heart by Marwa Helal
• Jimmy & I Lay in a Field of Flowers by Yesenia Montilla
• Meeting James Baldwin and Coming Back from My Naivety: Revenir de ma naïveté by Pierre Michel Jean
• On Screens by JP Infante
• Baldwin: Looking Back and Writing Forward!: Using James Baldwin’s Quotes as Prompts to Ignite Your Writing by JP Howard
• Unshattering: A Ritual for Black People Who Witnessed the Goings On at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
• Your Suffering is Your Bridge by Keisha-Gaye Anderson
• Four Poems by Dr. Margarita Rosa
• Other Countries by M. Abduh
• Rising Tides by Darrel Alejandro Holnes
• Haibuns Found While Reading Baldwin’s A Talk To Teachers By Flashlight by Peggy Robles-Alvarado