James Baldwin’s quote “Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it” is a powerful lesson on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1965, in the packed Cambridge Union Society in London, James Baldwin, a voice of the civil rights movement, debated the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American author James Baldwin (1924-1987) during an interview at the Whitehall Hotel in Bloomsbury Square, London. (Photo by ...

James Baldwin would have celebrated his 100th birthday Friday — on Aug. 2. On NPR and elsewhere, you can find deep examinations of his legacy – as everything from an orator, a fashion icon, to civil ...

Nicholas Boggs describes himself as an “accidental biographer,” and his new book, “Baldwin: A Love Story,” as something he fell into. “I don’t know if I should say this,” said Boggs, 51, “but when I ...

James Baldwin was born 100 years ago, on Aug. 2, 1924, in Harlem Hospital. He wrote in 1955, “I love America more than any other country in this world and exactly for this reason, I insist on the ...

The exhibition This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance documents the writer and activist's life through archival media, photographs, and artwork. At the ...

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.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. America needed James Baldwin (1924–1987) during the Civil Rights Movement ...

In Baldwin’s exploration of race and identity, he went beyond politics to examine racism’s psychological and spiritual effects on both the oppressor and the oppressed. He wrote about sexuality and ...