American Public Media presents host LeVar Burton in a program celebrating the author he calls “potent and polemical.” Christopher Jackson reads an excerpt from Baldwin’s famous letter The Fire Next Time: in “My Dungeon Shook,” he addresses internalized racism. Next, Anthony Rapp performs an excerpt from Giovanni's Room, in which an expat comes to terms with his sexuality and loneliness in Paris. And Baldwin contemplates The Great Migration in his novel “Go Tell It On The Mountain”. We hear an excerpt performed by Charlayne Woodard.
Celebrating James Baldwin
