James Baldwin, who was born in Harlem, New York City, on August 2, 1924, was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

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 ...

James Baldwin was born in the New York district of Harlem in 1924, when the world was already deeply racist. Poverty was rampant and there was police violence. Baldwin grew up with eight siblings.

(ThyBlackMan.com) James Baldwin remains one of the most essential ... identity through the lives of interconnected characters in New York City. The story begins with the tragic demise of Rufus ...

Baldwin, James, The Devil Finds Work (1976) (New York, Vintage Books, 2011). Baldwin, James, I Am Not Your Negro: A Major Motion Picture Directed by Raoul Peck (New York, Vintage Books, 2017). Baldwin ...

HARLEM, NY — The historic Apollo Theater is celebrating James Baldwin, the legendary Harlem-born writer and Civil Rights activist, this weekend in a way that the multi-hyphenate would have ...

Baldwin, James, “Anti-Semitism and Black Power” (1967), in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings, ed. Randall Kenan (New York, Pantheon Books, 2010), pp. 203–5. Baldwin, James, “The Devil ...

Baldwin, James, “The American Dream and the American Negro” (1965), in Collected Essays, ed. Toni Morrison (New York, The Library of America, 1998), pp. 714–19. Baldwin, James, Another Country (1962), ...

397–406. Bobia, Rosa, The Critical Reception of James Baldwin in France (New York, Peter Lang, 1997). Bone, Robert, The Negro Novel in America, (1958) Revised edition, (New Haven, Yale University ...

46–54. Baldwin, James, “The Devil Finds Work,” in James Baldwin: Collected Essays, ed. Toni Morrison (New York, Library of America, 1998), pp. 477–572. Baldwin, James, “Equal in Paris,” in Notes of a ...