This book is partly about James Baldwin’s own life. It tells the story of John Grimes, a young boy in 1930s Harlem. John ...

James Baldwin, by then, was living in the south ... last person capable of bridging the divide between his generation and younger activists. In a way he considered very un-American, Baldwin ...

Born in Harlem, NY, in 1924, James Baldwin had a calling from a young age to be a writer and activist during the Civil Rights ...

Decades after his death, James Baldwin’s work still resonates with ... The novel tells the story of Tish and Fonny, a young Black couple in love whose lives are shattered when Fonny is falsely ...

James Baldwin (1924-1987) is considered by many to be one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Born into ...

Kyle Bass’ short intense play “Citizen James, or the Young Man Without a Country” brings James Baldwin to vivid life, not by chronicling his long list of achievements in the 1950s ...