In three spare and widely spaced type-written pages, the Black, gay, expatriate, erudite man of letters recorded a birthday message for his sister in a poem entitled Some Days. James Baldwin, by then, ...

These James Baldwin quotes are only a small piece of the incredible legacy he left behind. 1. “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition During his ...

In his posthumously published collection The Price of the Ticket, James Baldwin explores the cost of being Black in America by first interrogating what it means to be White in America. He observes ...

Go Tell It on the Mountain sheds light on James Baldwin’s response to his Pentecostal religious inheritance. Baldwin writes protagonist John Grimes’s experience of “salvation” as an act of his own ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Writer, poet and activist James Baldwin (1924-1987) was one of the leading literary voices of the civil rights movement.

In honor of the start of Black History Month, Google honored the centennial anniversary of the birth of author and civil rights activist James Baldwin with its Google Doodle Thursday. “Thank you, ...

Out actor Billy Porter is co-writing a movie about celebrated gay author and civil rights activist James Baldwin in which Porter will play Baldwin. “As a Black queer man on this planet with relative ...