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 ...
Kyle Bass’ short intense play “Citizen James, or the Young Man Without a Country” brings James Baldwin to vivid life, not by chronicling his long list of achievements in the 1950s, ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s ...
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 ...
In a 1963 wide-ranging feature published in LIFE magazine, James Baldwin praised the virtues of reading. “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but ...