Encouraging words from insightful people can help you feel empowered and ready to take on a new day. For World Mental Health Day 2024, which is Oct. 10th, we've compiled quotes from advocates, experts ...

The scholar Nicholas Boggs has a new perspective on James Baldwin. The new biography Baldwin: A Love Story considers how the ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Writer, poet and activist James Baldwin (1924-1987) was one of the leading literary voices of the civil rights movement.

In Nicholas Boggs’ lively and vigorously researched biography of James Baldwin, the great writer’s search for the source of his art dovetails with his lifelong search for meaningful relationships.

James Baldwin — a friend of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X — is widely celebrated as a civil rights activist, a writer of forceful essays and an eloquent speaker. But his passion was for ...

The radical lives of James Baldwin. While Baldwin was persecuted in part because of whom he loved, it was love that impelled him to bring about a more utopian future in which such persecution was not ...

In the first major biography of James Baldwin in over three decades, Nicholas Boggs presents an intimate portrait shaped by the people who inspired him. Boggs traces four of Baldwin's transformative ...