Billy Porter Set to Play James Baldwin in Upcoming Film
Porter will also co-write the script about the activist and writer's life.
April 13 2023 5:28 PM
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James Baldwin
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With If Beale Street Could Talk getting raves, we look at other screen treatments of the great author's work -- and life.
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Then and Now, James Baldwin Is the Voice of The Resistance
The black and gay writer died 30 years ago. But a new documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, gifts his words on race and rebellion to a new generation of Americans.
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