James Baldwin was born in Harlem in 1924, the eldest of nine children and stepson to a severe preacher. He came of age in the afterglow of the Harlem Renaissance, within a nation still disfigured by racism. A precocious intellect and gifted speaker, Baldwin left the pulpit as a teenage minister, and later, the country […] The post The Artist as Preacher: James Baldwin’s Sacred Task first appeared on The Upstream Journal.
