NPR's Tiny Desk is honoring Black Music Month with concerts lead by women, including Meshell Ndegeocello. NPR's Ari Shapiro spoke with her about her album “No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin." ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In late 1962, James Baldwin wrote an open letter to his fifteen-year-old nephew, James, that was ...

James Baldwin would have been 100 on Friday. The New York-born author and civil rights activist has family ties to the Gulf South through his stepfather, David Baldwin, who was originally from New ...

This Friday marks what would have been the 100th birthday of author and activist James Baldwin. To celebrate, Strathmore is partnering with the AFI Silver Theatre and Eaton D.C. to host a special ...

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 ...

Black Music Month has brought a parade of Black legends to the Tiny Desk here at NPR headquarters. Each artist plays a few songs for a video that gets posted to nprmusic.org. Well, when Grammy-winning ...

NPR's Tiny Desk is honoring Black Music Month with concerts lead by women, including Meshell Ndegeocello. NPR's Ari Shapiro spoke with her about... Meshell Ndegeocello talks about her album and ...