"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 ...

As Black History Month made its 2024 debut on Feb. 1, so did a Google Doodle of civil rights activist and author James Baldwin. Created by artist Jon Key in a palette of black and violet, the Doodle ...

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 ...

James Baldwin’s legacy will take center stage this week as art, film and conversation converge at the Wexner Center for the Arts. In collaboration with the James Baldwin Project and Ohio State, the ...

James Baldwin Review is delighted to present a special section dedicated to chronicling and demonstrating Baldwin’s direct involvement in the civil rights movement. On tours for the Congress of Racial ...

Like Ava DuVernay’s 13th, Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro travels a straight, well-researched path from the darkest tragedies of American history to the ones that plague the country today. Both films ...

James Baldwin — a friend of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X — is widely celebrated as a civil rights activist, a writer of forceful essays and an eloquent speaker. But his passion was for ...

The scholar Nicholas Boggs has a new perspective on James Baldwin. The new biography Baldwin: A Love Story considers how the writer and Civil Rights leader’s lovers might’ve shaped him. In today’s ...

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 ...

James Baldwin, the world famous Black author and activist, once picked up "an ordinary water mug half full of water" off a table in a New Jersey diner and hurled it with all his strength at the ...