#OnThisDay 1968: “If you can’t make love, make money.” Author and activist James Baldwin joined Tony Palmer to talk about his experiences of living in different countries and what he called the “gap between the American dream and reality.” | BBC Archive

'Love has never been a popular movement'. The brilliant mind of the humanist firebrand James Baldwin – author, playwright, and activist – at work, Paris 1970. Here, Baldwin is a surviving civil rights icon, who has fled to Paris following the assassinations of Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr, as well as the many other deaths of his friends as a result of racist brutality. The confrontational interview, where Baldwin riffs on avoiding despair by confiding in loved ones, and seeing the common h

The truly extraordinary debate between James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley Jr. at Cambridge University on the question: "Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?" All Credit to NET (1965) | WHAT WE SEEE

At the start of black history month in the US, we take a look at a seminal speech by the writer, essayist, poet and civil rights activist James Baldwin. At Cambridge University Union in 1965, Baldwin debates whether the ‘American dream’ has been achieved at the expense of African-Americans. | The Guardian