James Baldwin, the world famous Black author and activist, once picked up "an ordinary water mug half full of water" off a table in a New Jersey diner and hurled it with all his strength at the ...

American author James Baldwin (1924-1987) during an interview at the Whitehall Hotel in Bloomsbury Square, London. (Photo by Jenkins/Getty Images) In Baldwin’s exploration of race and identity, he ...

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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, ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s ...

James Baldwin was born 100 years ago, on Aug. 2, 1924, in Harlem Hospital. He wrote in 1955, “I love America more than any other country in this world and exactly for this reason, I insist on the ...

In a 1963 wide-ranging feature published in LIFE magazine, James Baldwin praised the virtues of reading. “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but ...

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Fame after death can kill again. The historian knows this; the biographer knows this. No longer here to shape their own image, familiar figures become unknown to us. So many privacies now unguarded.

In the financial district of Manhattan, an A.I.-equipped typewriter, fueled by James Baldwin’s works, types back at you with answers to your questions. Exhibition Review In the financial district of ...

In Baldwin’s exploration of race and identity, he went beyond politics to examine racism’s psychological and spiritual effects on both the oppressor and the oppressed. He wrote about sexuality and ...