James Baldwin & Allen Ginsberg, Albion Bookstore Amherst, MA. March 22, 1986. photo: Patrick Warner
James Baldwin Albion Bookstore, Amherst, MA March 22 1986. photo: Allen Ginsberg courtesy Stanford University Libraries/ Allen Ginsberg Estate
James Baldwin Centennial today. Writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin was born (James Arthur Jones) on August 2nd 1924 at Harlem Hospital in New York City.
We celebrate him with these two photographs from 1986 (Baldwin attended Allen’s reading in Amherst, Massachusetts, at the Albion Bookstore)
He died the following year December 1, 1987, in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
We celebrate also him and his legacy with these four films:
The Price of The Ticket Now (1987)
Meeting The Man – James Baldwin in Paris (1970)
and, most recently,(from 2016), Raoul Peck’s. I Am Not Your Negro
and one more (going back to 1971) – James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni in conversation