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 ...

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — Bowling Green State University will honor the legacy of author and activist James Baldwin's contributions to art, culture and literature with a guest speaker and reading event on ...

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 ...

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 ...

James Baldwin, one of the most influential writers and thinkers of the 20th century, is remembered this year as the world commemorates the centennial birthday of The Icon—prolific author, poet, ...

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 ...