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Maya Angelou & James Baldwin in Conversation
Novelist, essayist and outspoken civil rights activist James Baldwin sat down with Maya Angelou, his longtime friend and fellow author, for an intimate, wide-ranging exchange in 1975. Baldwin reflected on his writing between devastating assassinations in the U.S., sexuality and identity, finding love and coming to terms with death. He also discussed his life abroad in France as a Black man from Harlem in search of safety from rampant racism in the U.S. and what it meant to him to be a Black writer in America.
“Assignment America” was a weekly series with alternating interviewers including: poet, playwright and author Maya Angelou; Harvard psycho-historian Doris Kerns; syndicated columnist George Will; and populist chronicler Studs Terkel. Each program featured one of the four in a 30-minute film or videotape report on someone who contributed to the ideas and issues of America.
This 1975 “Assignment America” episode from THIRTEEN’s Archives is included in The WNET Group’s initiative Honoring Our Stories: Celebrating Black History and Culture. Join us for programs about heritage and traditions, stories of artistry and activism, voices from the civil rights movement, and films from the THIRTEEN archives.
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