CRITICAL MASS | OPINION: James Baldwin at 100

July 20, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.

by Philip Martin

This Bob Adelman portrait of James Baldwin at the March on Washington in 1963 appears in the film “I Am Not Your Negro.”
This Bob Adelman portrait of James Baldwin at the March on Washington in 1963 appears in the film “I Am Not Your Negro.”


If love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can.

-- James Baldwin,

"Letter From a Region in My Mind," 1962

Had he not died in 1987, James Baldwin would be 100 on Aug.

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