Black Man. Revolutionary. James Baldwin is all of this and more. Some fall in love with his characters, and others find ...

To mark the end of Black History Month, we're revisiting two conversations about James Baldwin that first aired last summer for his 100th birthday. First, NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with McKinley ...

James Baldwin, one of America’s most influential writers and thinkers, continues to inspire decades after his death.

In late August 2024, a quote attributed to American civil rights activist and writer James Baldwin spread on X. The full quotation (archived), which also appeared on LinkedIn, read: But the state ...

Your uncle, James From "The First Next Time" by James Baldwin. Reprinted by arrangement with Modern Library, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.

New Book Explores James Baldwin’s Most Intimate Relationships – See the Cover Here (Exclusive) Nicholas Boggs’ extensive biography, ‘Baldwin: A Love Story,’ will be published this summer ...

James Baldwin would have celebrated his 100th birthday Friday — on Aug. 2. On NPR and elsewhere, you can find deep examinations of his legacy – as everything from an orator, a fashion icon, to ...

James Baldwin at 100: The Writer America Needed The author of ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain’ and ‘The Fire Next Time’ got early experience in the pulpit. The cadences of the sermon rang ...

James Baldwin is one of the most celebrated American writers of the 20th century. He wrote novels, essays, short stories, poetry, and even a screenplay. He's best known for his affecting prose ...

Writing from his room at the A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham on October 18, 1957, James Baldwin described how his trip through the South had been going the last few weeks. Baldwin, then 33, had ...

Frontline Prophet: James Baldwin, the traveling art exhibition receives its last stop at Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.

August marked the 100th birthday of James Baldwin, one of the most important authors in American history. The Brooklyn Public Library, like many cultural institutions, wanted to mark his centennial ...