(ThyBlackMan.com) James Baldwin remains one of the most essential voices in American literature and cultural commentary. His works, spanning fiction, essays, and plays, delve deeply into themes of ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. In a 1961 interview with the journalist Studs Terkel, James Baldwin offered a riveting assessment of Bessie Smith’s “Backwater Blues.” “It ...

HARLEM, NY — The historic Apollo Theater is celebrating James Baldwin, the legendary Harlem-born writer and Civil Rights activist, this weekend in a way that the multi-hyphenate would have ...