James Baldwin
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August 2 is the birthday of iconic Civil Rights activist, novelist, playwright, essayist and poet, James Baldwin. Watch a segment from PBS NewsHour with an extended archival clip from a debate over 55 years ago in which Baldwin and founder of the conservative National Review, William F. Buckley, Jr., met to discuss race in America.
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