The book, organized in sections centered around the writer's four great loves, details how Baldwin spent decades wrestling with his own sexuality, racism in the U.S. and abroad and the cost of fame.

(ThyBlackMan.com) James Baldwin was more than a novelist, playwright, and essayist—he was a witness. He bore witness to the struggle of Black Americans, the contradictions of the American Dream, and ...

"In 1970 James Baldwin and Margaret Mead met for an extraordinary seven-and-a-half-hour discussion about race and society. Mead brought her knowledge of racism as practiced in remote societies around ...