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In the fall of 2009, a short clip of James Baldwin debating William F. Buckley, Jr. in England went viral on YouTube. There, nestled in what seems to be a crowd of one thousand students, a small man with large piercing eyes read a sermon that momentarily rippled through the cacophony of the Twitter-verse, Facebook, and a million other millennial distractions.
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Vaught, S. (2014). James Baldwin VS. William F. Buckley, JR. for The Soul of America. In: Henderson, A.S., Thomas, P.L. (eds) James Baldwin. Critical Literacy Teaching Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-619-6_12
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