Biography
James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.
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Louis Armstrong's Black &...
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Mr. SOUL!
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Public Speaking
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James Baldwin: The Price ...
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I Heard It Through the Gr...

King: A Filmed Record... ...
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Meeting the Man: James Ba...
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Robert Penn Warren: A Vis...

Madonna: Madame X
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A Person Is More Importan...
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