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 ...

A Love Story, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers, this summer. Written by scholar ...

James Baldwin, ghosted! His international friendships ... “A number of our most massive achievements have been snatched from the jaws of death—by we, the living, whose burden of opportunity ...

The late James Baldwin, who died on the first of December ... Other treatments attempt biography through the display of letters. The centennial of Baldwin’s birth, this past year, saw no ...

Pakay’s photographs of Baldwin are currently on view in Turkey Saved My Life: Baldwin in Istanbul, 1961–1971, an exhibition at the Brooklyn Public Library. The show was organized by Atesh M. Gundogdu, ...

Bill V. Mullen is the author of the biography James Baldwin: Living in Fire (Pluto Press). He is Professor of American ...

‘Nina Simone with James Baldwin.’ Artist: Bernard Gotfryd. Gelatin silver print, 1965. Through portraiture and biography, the one-room exhibition explores Baldwin’s legacy alongside his ...

And in the midst of all the death, so many people... What James Baldwin can teach us about Israel, and ourselves It's been more than ten months since devastating violence began unfolding in Israel ...

I could not help but recall that encounter while taking in the exhibition, “Turkey Saved My Life – Baldwin in Istanbul, ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. James Baldwin Review Vol. 3, 2017 Queering I Am Not Your Negro: or Why We ... The author reviews Raoul Peck’s 2016 film, I Am Not Your Negro, finding it ...

Why James Baldwin’s work is attracting renewed attention in 2020 Sunday marked what would have been literary icon James Baldwin’s 96th birthday, in a year when the resurgence of Black Lives ...