The Fire on the Mountain” transformed Washington, D.C.’s historic Lincoln Theatre into an immersive celebration of James Baldwin’s legacy. Produced by Lyn Dyson and powered by community partnerships ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Baldwin: A Love Story" surpasses previous biographies of the author known for works including "Go Tell It on the Mountain." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JESSICA B. HARRIS: I was the tail of the kite of a friendship that Baldwin had with a person named Samuel Clemens Floyd III. We ...

James Baldwin, like many American novelists before him, F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Dos Passos included, spent his formative ...

The book, organized in sections centered around the writer's four great loves, details how Baldwin spent decades wrestling with his own sexuality, racism in the U.S. and abroad and the cost of fame.

James Baldwin is directly connected to Duke Ellington and John Coltrane in my mind, thanks to the 90-minute documentary James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket. When the Paris section of the film ...

Gay Black writer James Baldwin (1924-1987) seems to be everywhere: TikTok memes, social media hashtags, Raoul Peck’s 2016 award-winning documentary, “I Am Not Your Negro,” Princeton University’s ...

Essayist, novelist and activist James Baldwin published a wide body of work, but wrote only two plays. One of them, "The Amen Corner," his only full-length work for theater, takes the stage this week ...

Nicholas Boggs describes himself as an “accidental biographer,” and his new book, “Baldwin: A Love Story,” as something he fell into. “I don’t know if I should say this,” said Boggs, 51, “but when I ...