Tag: Haiti

  • James Baldwin debates William Buckley Jr.

    James Baldwin debates William Buckley Jr.

    On this day, in 1965, James Baldwin debated William F. Buckley at Cambridge University. After a brilliant take-down of white supremacy, Baldwin receives a standing ovation (38:20) and this debate (and much of what Baldwin says here) becomes a major milestone in the intellectual response to the horrors of Jim Crow America. Frederick Douglass in…