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WATCH: "James Baldwin: Race, Media and Psychoanalysis," June 24, 2021

James Baldwin: Race, Media, and Psychoanalysis

Organized by A Closer Look, Inc. in partnership with NYU’s Grey Art Gallery

Original date: June 24, 2021

Watch a panel discussion around Joseph Lovett’s 1979 film profile on James Baldwin, interviewed by Sylvia Chase for ABC’s 20/20. Lovett moderated a panel with guests Victor P. Bonfilio, JD, Ph.D., Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California; Annie Lee Jones, Ph.D., clinical psychologist/psychoanalyst, co-chair of the Committee on Ethnicity, Race, Culture, Class, and Language (CERCCL) NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; and Aisha Karefa-Smart, author, educator, public speaker, and niece of James Baldwin. 

Watch the 10-minute short film: Never Aired: Profile on James Baldwin, ABC’s 20/20, 1979