Writer and activist James Baldwin played a pivotal role in championing black and queer rights in America. Born August 2, 1924, in New York City, Baldwin published essays, novels, plays, reviews, and ...

A Love Story, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers, this summer. Written by scholar Nicholas Boggs, the biography examines three of Baldwin’s most intimate ...

James baldwin’s memoir No Name in the Street begins, as many memoirs do, with the writer’s very first memory. He is not yet five years old. His mother says to him, “I have a good idea,” and then, ...

The essay served as a definitive diagnosis of American race relations. Events soon gave it the force of prophecy.

America needed James Baldwin (1924–1987 ... The exhibition features a powerful photo of Baldwin, the grandson of an enslaved person, and Rustin at the Selma, AL march to Montgomery.

Why James Baldwin’s work is attracting renewed attention in 2020 Sunday marked what would have been literary icon James Baldwin’s 96th birthday, in a year when the resurgence of Black Lives ...

Read More: James Baldwin Insisted We Tell the Truth About This Country. The Truth Is, We’ve Been Here Before Baldwin’s frame was small, his clothes often hugged his skin. In most pictures that ...

In an effusive letter addressed to James Baldwin in September of 1961, Martin Luther King, Jr. praises Baldwin for his voice and a monumental essay collection. “I have just finished reading ...

Citizen James, or the Young Man without a Country,” a portrait of writer James Baldwin playing at HartBeat Ensemble, offers a ...