Happy Birthday James Baldwin

James Baldwin was born on this day (August 2) in 1924. He passed away (from liver cancer) in 1987.

The author of Giovanni’s Room and a campaigner against discrimination (race, poverty, homosexuality), James Baldwin’s adventures included this televised roundtable of 1963, which he shared with Marlon Brando, Harry Belafonte, Charlton Heston and Sidney Poitier among others:

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