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James Baldwin

Aug 02, 1924 - Dec 01, 1987 (63 years old) in Harlem, New York, USA

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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Explained
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Bobby Kennedy for President
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Public Speaking
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BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
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I Am Not Your Negro
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
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Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
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Madonna: Madame X
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