The Fire Next Time
Author: James Baldwin
The landmark work on race in America from James Baldwin, whose life and words are immortalized in the Oscar-nominated film I Am Not Your Negro, ,, ,’We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation’James Baldwin’s impassioned plea to ‘end the racial nightmare’ in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a….Read More
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