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James Baldwin

James Baldwin

Birthday: 1924-08-02 | Place of Birth: 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
i ran from it and was still in it

as    Self (voice) (archive footage)

2018
Bobby Kennedy for President

as    Self (archive footage)

2017
I Am Not Your Negro

as    Self (archive footage)

2010
Public Speaking

as    Self (archive footage)

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

as    Self (archive footage)