60 years ago today one of the most electrifying and significant debates in the history of the Cambridge Union took place. It ...

Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley” is a creative re-enactment of James Baldwin and William F. Buckley's 1965 battle about the ...

A Love Story, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers, this summer. Written by scholar ...

In 1965 in Cambridge, scholar and civil rights icon James Baldwin faced off with conservative leader William F. Buckley, debating the question, “Is the American Dream achieved at the expense of the ...

The essay served as a definitive diagnosis of American race relations. Events soon gave it the force of prophecy.

Citizen James, or the Young Man without a Country,” a portrait of writer James Baldwin playing at HartBeat Ensemble, offers a ...

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He worked in New York City, and later Paris. He was close friends with Henry Miller and James Baldwin. He captured the faces of W. E. B. Du Bois and Duke Ellington. Although the depth and breadth of ...

Why James Baldwin’s work is attracting renewed attention in 2020 Sunday marked what would have been literary icon James Baldwin’s 96th birthday, in a year when the resurgence of Black Lives ...

On Feb. 18, 1965, the famed Cambridge Union at Britain’s University of Cambridge held a debate between James Baldwin, the illustrious American author, orator and civil rights activist, and William F.

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If you want a depressing — albeit instructive — lesson in how little we've progressed in 60 years, go see the Chicago ...