This week’s featured idealist is the one and only James Baldwin—an extraordinary writer and an advocate for Black folks at a time when doing so put him at risk professionally and personally. The Big Interview is with Marshall Tanick, a Twin Cities lawyer-writer who talks about how Edward Blum and his organization, Alliance for Equal Rights, are attacking DEI programs across the country, including at law firms. In my C-Block I share about a recent day training social service professionals in rural Minnesota.