The play is set in a small town in the Deep South. Before the play begins, a twenty-year old Negro, who has been living in the North since he was fourteen and who has become a drug addict, comes home to recover and rebuild his life. He is killed and the play pivots on his murder.
Contains a letter to Baldwin's nephew on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation describing his childhood, views on Black Muslims, and his visions.
In 1970s Harlem, when Fonny, a young African-American sculptor, is falsely accused of rape and imprisoned, Tish, his nineteen-year-old, pregnant girlfriend; her parents; and his father rally together to try to clear his name.
Transcript of the documentary film, I am not your negro, by Raoul Peck composed of unpublished and published writings, interviews, and letters by James Baldwin on the subject of racism in America.
Describes a day in the life of several members of a Harlem fundamentalist church. The saga of three generations of people is related through flashbacks.