During Black History Month we look back at a seminal speech by close friend and fellow civil rights activist, the writer, essayist and poet James Baldwin. Baldwin debates whether the ‘American dream’ has been achieved at the expense of African-Americans, at an event at Cambridge University Union in 1965. From our archive. | The Guardian

The truly extraordinary debate between James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley Jr. at Cambridge University on the question: "Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?" All Credit to NET (1965) | WHAT WE SEEE