Confronting issues that echoes down the decades, american vicarious resurrects the 1965 Cambridge Union debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr at Wilton’s Music Hall. Baldwin, too, was ...

Greatly underappreciated American essayist and novelist James Baldwin wrote this in his book “No Name in the Street”: “People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the ...

It was arguably the most famous debate of the civil rights era. On Feb. 18, 1965, writer and activist James Baldwin took the stage at the Cambridge Union Society. His opponent was William F. Buckley ...