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." ...

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.

A monumental new biography of James Baldwin was published this summer, in coordination with the centennial of his birth. Nicholas Boggs’s Baldwin: A Love Story traces Baldwin’s prolific career and ...

In 1950, James Baldwin and his lover, the painter Lucien Happersberger, set out from Paris for the mountains of Switzerland, where Baldwin, then around 25, hoped to climb his way out of a creative ...

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is set to honor Black History Month with a lecture by Dr. Ed Pavlić, a renowned ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2016, Meshell Ndegeocello debuted one of the most ambitious and compelling works of her storied career at the historic Harlem Stage Gatehouse in New ...