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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
Self (archive footage)
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Bobby Kennedy for President
Self (archive footage)
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Mr. SOUL!
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Public Speaking
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The New Yorker at 100
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
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The Statue of Liberty
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Madonna: Madame X
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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