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James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, but most notably in mid-20th-century North America. Some of Baldwin's essays are book-length, including The Fire Next Time (1963), No Name in the Street (1972), and The Devil Finds Work (1976). An unfinished manuscript, Remember This House, was expanded and adapted for cinema as the Academy Award–nominated documentary film I Am Not Your Negro. One of his novels, If Beale Street Could Talk, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning dramatic film in 2018 directed and produced by filmmaker Barry Jenkins.
Born
Saturday, 02 August 1924
Died
Tuesday, 01 December 1987
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
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| Unsung Presents: Best in Black | Self | 2023 |
| The Problem with Jon Stewart | Self | 2021 |
| Black Power: A British Story of Resistance | Self | 2021 |
| By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem | Self / Self - Writer & Activist | 2020 |
| Who Killed Malcolm X? | Self | 2019 |
| Target: St. Louis | Self | 2019 |
| ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke | Self | 2019 |
| Explained | Self | 2018 |
| Mr. Soul! | Self / Self (archival footage) | 2018 |
| Bobby Kennedy for President | Self | 2018 |
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