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October 2022

the american vicarious presents “Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley”

October 24, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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An event every week that begins at 7:30 pm on Monday, repeating until October 24, 2022

The Old Stone House at Washington Park, 336 3rd Street
Brooklyn, 11215
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"Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?" This was the topic on February 18, 1965 when an overflow crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to bear witness to a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and America’s most influential conservative intellectual. The stage was set for an epic confrontation that pitted Baldwin’s call for…

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the american vicarious presents “Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley”

October 17, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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An event every week that begins at 7:30 pm on Monday, repeating until October 24, 2022

The Old Stone House at Washington Park, 336 3rd Street
Brooklyn, 11215
+ Google Map

"Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?" This was the topic on February 18, 1965 when an overflow crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to bear witness to a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and America’s most influential conservative intellectual. The stage was set for an epic confrontation that pitted Baldwin’s call for…

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the american vicarious presents “Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley”

October 10, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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An event every week that begins at 7:30 pm on Monday, repeating until October 24, 2022

The Old Stone House at Washington Park, 336 3rd Street
Brooklyn, 11215
+ Google Map

"Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?" This was the topic on February 18, 1965 when an overflow crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to bear witness to a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and America’s most influential conservative intellectual. The stage was set for an epic confrontation that pitted Baldwin’s call for…

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