ARGONAUT BOOKS

The struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the election of Donald Trump. For James Baldwin, these after times came in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement, when a similar attempt to force a confrontation with the truth of America's racism was answered with the murders of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. In the years from the publication of 'The Fire Next Time' in 1963 to that of 'No Name in the Street' in 1972, Baldwin became a more overtly political writer, a change that came at great professional and personal cost....Read More