Meshell Ndegeocello has announced her second album for Blue Note Records. The new album is a tribute to James Baldwin and will be released on the 100th anniversary of the iconic author’s birth, August ...

Meshell Ndegeocello, like many people, would rather not turn on her camera during Zoom calls. “I want to hear you,” she says. “I enjoy my hearing apparatus. The eyes will fool you.” It’s for this ...

Meshell Ndegeocello is a modern master of electric bass. Her playing never calls undue attention to itself, yet her songs would fall apart without it. Bouncing between just two notes, she exudes ...

In 1965, in the packed Cambridge Union Society in London, James Baldwin, a voice of the civil rights movement, debated the commentator William F. Buckley, who was skeptical of the cause. The motion: ...

Years ago, when I published an essay referring to James Baldwin—born a century ago this year—as “the greatest of all African-American writers,” a friend called me on the claim. Was Baldwin really ...

NEW YORK-- James Baldwin, one of Harlem's most legendary literary icons, would have turned 100 on Friday. In celebration, the New York Public Library unveiled new exhibits honoring Baldwin's legacy. A ...

James Baldwin was born 100 years ago, on Aug. 2, 1924, in Harlem Hospital. He wrote in 1955, “I love America more than any other country in this world and exactly for this reason, I insist on the ...

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 ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Most of Baldwin’s letters are kept in New York City’s Schomburg Center for Research in ...