Prosecutors argued James Baldwin killed his wife, Judy, in a fit of rage before trying to pass off her murder as an accident.

The tragic case of Judy Orr Baldwin left her community reeling in 2016 when authorities thought the accident was caused by some sort of usual incident.

America—and with the land of his expatriation, France. But a fascinating new exhibit focusses on Baldwin’s years in Turkey, ...

Judy Orr Baldwin's tragic death in December 2016 left her family and community in shock. What seemed to be a tragic accident was something much more sinister.

“I can’t breathe,” James Baldwin told his assistant Zeynep Oral back in 1961, “I have to look from the outside.” Outside meant Istanbul, the city to which the American writer and civil ...

August marked the 100th birthday of James Baldwin, one of the most important authors in American history. The Brooklyn Public Library, like many cultural institutions, wanted to mark his centennial ...

This year, the world celebrates what would have been James Baldwin’s 100th birthday. The author and political activist’s writings on race relations, human rights and equality still resonate to this ...

James baldwin’s memoir No Name in the Street begins, as many memoirs do, with the writer’s very first memory. He is not yet five years old. His mother says to him, “I have a good idea,” and then, ...

James Baldwin was one of America’s most influential thinkers and writers. Born in 1924 in Harlem, New York, his novels, essays and speeches articulated the racial oppression facing African ...

Join Chukwudi Iwuji, acclaimed stage and screen actor, for a reading to mark the centenary of James Baldwin. Iwuji, who has been immersed in Baldwin's work as part of a forthcoming project ...