James Baldwin

After Baldwin’s biographer died, her niece opened an old desk drawer and discovered a trove of interview material, some of it unpublished.

James Baldwin's dispatch from MLK's funeral foreshadowed an America we may never escape.

Since we live in an age in which silence is not only criminal but suicidal, I have been making as much noise as I can.

These things happen, in all our Harlems, every single day. If we ignore this fact, and our common responsibility to change this fact, we are sealing our doom.

Revolution, the civil rights movement, and African-American identity.