James Baldwin was definitely a “soul on fire.”
His brutally honest writing style evoked the experience of living in a world dictated by prejudice and social injustice. A number of his books, like his controversial 1953 novel Go Tell It On the Mountain, became classics. Besides being one of the leading black authors of his time, he was a passionate civil-rights activist–working alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior and Malcolm X, in the early 1960s.
This year, James Baldwin would have celebrated his ninetieth birthday. And professional actor and cultural conservationist Charles Reese, a/k/a The Charles Reese Experience, is educating people on the life of this extraordinary author and activist.
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