Billy Porter notably quoted James Baldwin at the 2019 Emmy Awards after he won best actor for his performance in Pose Billy Porter is taking on the role of a lifetime. On Wednesday, Allen Media Group ...

Beacon Press ($2.75). "You taught me language," says Caliban to Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest, "and my ...

An official James Baldwin biopic is in the works from Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group Motion Pictures (AMGMP). Billy Porter and Dan McCabe have been tapped to write the biopic of the iconic American ...

On what would have been his one-hundredth birthday, the words of James Baldwin stand stronger than ever. The New York City-born writer and civil rights activist held a powerful presence throughout the ...

American author James Baldwin (1924-1987) during an interview at the Whitehall Hotel in Bloomsbury Square, London. (Photo by Jenkins/Getty Images) In Baldwin’s exploration of race and identity, he ...

Discover the story of young James Baldwin in this ode to the legendary writer and the power of the written word--with exquisite prose from acclaimed poet Quartez Harris, and breathtaking illustrations ...

James Baldwin is, to put it mildly, foundational. Oft-quoted and adapted across media, Baldwin’s work still forms the spine of our modern understanding of racial and sexual liberation, yet — perhaps ...

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 ...

February is Black History Month and to celebrate, Google is honoring American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin with Thursday's Google Doodle. Baldwin, regarded as one of America's most ...

On Baldwin's would-be 100th birthday, the author of a Shakespeare adaptation series reflects on how the Black icon impacted her reading of the Bard Marco Calderon; Anthony Barboza/Getty I was 38 when ...

To mark the end of Black History Month, we're revisiting two conversations about James Baldwin that first aired last summer for his 100th birthday. First, NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with McKinley ...

In 1965, in the packed Cambridge Union Society in London, James Baldwin, a voice of the civil rights movement, debated the commentator William F. Buckley, who was skeptical of the cause. The motion: ...