James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Cambridge Debate. Baldwin’s speech that night wasn’t the typical Union address; it was more of a searing sermon on the perils of white supremacy for both ...

Before James Baldwin became James Baldwin the figure, before the televised debates, before the public speeches, he was a writer. Today marks 100 years since his birth.

On what would have been his one hundredth birthday, four of James Baldwin’s nephews remember their beloved uncle: a fun, affectionate man who taught them how to play chess, breakdance, and move ...

In an effusive letter addressed to James Baldwin in September of 1961, Martin Luther King, Jr. praises Baldwin for his voice ...

On the centennial year of the birth of writer and orator James Baldwin, we listen to sections of the legendary 1965 televised debate between Baldwin and conservative William F. Buckley.

James Baldwin, the prolific novelist, essayist and playwright, would have turned 100 years old on Friday. The Harlem-born writer who wrote from Paris at times challenged the U.S. through his work ...

Below are 75 James Baldwin quotes pulled from essays, interviews, speeches, letters and novels by the famous writer. Curated and woven to tell the story of Baldwin’s life, you will watch his ...

My mother’s book club didn’t try to take me to see James Baldwin lecture at the University of Puget Sound in 1987 because ... In them was the mindset of Montaigne and the music of Black speech.