Hilton Als on the private and public lives of the author of “The Fire Next Time” and “Giovanni's Room.”
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James Baldwin spoke of the pain and struggle of Black Americans and the saving power of brotherhood.
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One might have hoped that, by this hour, the very sight of chains on black flesh, or the very sight of chains, would be so intolerable a...
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Ninety-four years after his birth (and more than thirty since his death) James Baldwin remains an intellectual, moral, and creative...
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The African-American expatriate writer who once used his European exile to explore, defy, and decry the delusional fiction of race that has organized our minds.
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When James Baldwin died in December of 1987, I was 24 years old, living in a neighborhood jokingly referred to as Dyke Slope because of the...
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James Baldwin diagnosed America's race problems as coming, not from hatred or ignorance, but from white Americans' inability to admit that life is tragic.
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Doreen St. Félix writes about the centenary of James Baldwin's birth, and a new photo exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library, “Turkey Saved...
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100 years ago, on August 2, 1924 James Baldwin, né James Arthur Jones, was born in New York City. Needless to say, he would grow to become one of America's...
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American racism has many moving parts, and has had enough centuries in which to evolve impressive camouflage.
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