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, ...

In her recently published book, Ecotheology and Love: The Converging Poetics of Sohrab Sepehri and James Baldwin, Bahar Davary points to the interrelation of religion, poetry, and ecology from a ...

Artists, scholars, and popular media often describe James Baldwin as revolutionary, either for his written work or for his role in the civil rights movement. But what does it mean to be revolutionary?

The Bricks in Hamden was the place to be on Saturday night, as literature fans gathered to fete author and civil rights movement icon James Baldwin — and the beginning of a year’s worth of programming ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In late 1962, James Baldwin wrote an open letter to his fifteen-year-old nephew, James, that was ...

James Baldwin in collage form, part of ‘Frontline Prophet: James Baldwin,’ on display now through April 27 at Joyce Gordon Gallery in Oakland. (Sabrina Nelson) More than a half-century ago, the famed ...

In 1948, struggling with America as America struggled with civil rights ? a young James Baldwin left Harlem for Paris. The aspiring black writer, also struggling with his own identity, met other ...

The Counter Narrative Project, the advocacy organization that seeks to change narratives around Black LGBTQ men that influence policy, is hosting James Baldwin and Atlanta to celebrate what would’ve ...

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