
James Baldwin
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.
Known for

World in Action
1963

The Dick Cavett Show
1968

Explained
2018

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022

I Am Not Your Negro
2017

Bobby Kennedy for President
2018

Public Speaking
2011

Mr. SOUL!
2018

The Statue of Liberty
1985

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970

The New Yorker at 100
2025

Madonna: Madame X
2021

SOUL!
1968

James Baldwin Abroad
2023

I Remember Harlem
1981

The Madding Crowd
2017

Baldwin's Nigger
1968

The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre
1978

The Negro and the American Promise
1963

Take This Hammer
1964

James Baldwin: From Another Place
1973

Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
2018

I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989