The author James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) achieved international recognition for his bold expressions of African American life in the United States. James Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York City, on August 2, 1924, the oldest of nine children. His...

James Baldwin's eminence as a man of letters is now well established; indeed, his books, essays, and numerous other pieces attest to the truth of Benjamin DeMott's statement that "this author retains a place in an extremely select group: that comprised...

James Baldwin emerged in the 1960s as one of America's most gifted writers and one of black America's most articulate spokesmen. Although he is primarily a novelist, Baldwin has also published essays, plays, and short stories. Critics generally agree...

Today is Monday, Dec. 18, the 352nd day of 2006. There are 13 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 18, 1944, in a pair of rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the wartime relocation of Japanese-Americans, but also said undeniably loyal Americans...

How does Black LGBT/SGL culture relate to hip hop?Well, consider the literature.Black LGBT/SGL literature is underground hip hop. We are telling our truths and we have an audience. We are not anomalies. We have been writing for over a century and the mainstream is beginning...

Hillary Rodham Clinton and her campaign tried to mend ties to black voters Thursday when a key supporter apologized to her chief rival, Barack Obama, for comments that hinted at Obama's drug use as a teenager. The candidate herself, meanwhile, praised the Rev. Martin Luther...

Norman Mailer was at Bobby Kennedy’s wake in 1968 when he lit a woman’s hair on fire with a candle. It was an accident, but that didn’t count for much when the woman’s hair started to sizzle and Mailer and his friend Jimmy Breslin...

In the following essay, Shin and Judson analyze the change in Baldwin's presentation of homosexuality between Giovanni's Room and Just Above My Head.

In the following essay, O'Neale "explores the complexities of Baldwin's concepts of fatherhood and how they impinge on his search—for a sympathetic Father/God—an odyssey that he deliberately identifies as the collective historic experience of the race and its artists."

In the following interview, Baldwin discusses his relationships, his writing, other writers, and America.

Defend, challenge, qualify essay from James Baldwin quote about giving and keeping.

Twenty-four year old James Baldwin, a black writer so enraged at the racism to which he was subjected during a visit to New Jersey that he believed he was about to commit murder, left the United States for Paris, France. Reflecting on his decision in a 1985 interview with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Baldwin made it clear that his relocation did not indicate agreement with the jingoistic sentiments of any catchphrase such as America: Love It or Leave It".