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British writer Ekow Eshun is also a broadcaster and curator whose work tackles identity, race and Black masculinity.

Hisham Matar is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction. Born in New York to Libyan parents, he trained to be an architect before trading buildings for books.

In 1971, the young poet and writer Nikki Giovanni had a job in television and when she was asked who she’d like to record a conversation with, she suggested James Baldwin.

Early on in life, award-winning Irish writer Colm Toibin saw connections between his religious upbringing in Ireland and James Baldwin’s in Harlem.

David Leeming was asked by James Baldwin to be his biographer after a friendship of more than 25 years, which began in Turkey in the early 1960s.

Caryl Phillips was first a student studying James Baldwin, then the two became friends.

Shafak and Baldwin share a deep connection to Turkey and a commitment to belonging and empathy in storytelling.

Darryl Pinckney is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction inspired by James Baldwin since his teenage years.

Siri Hustvedt is a celebrated writer of fiction and nonfiction, who is inspired by the connections between the humanities and science.

Bryan Stevenson finds courage and compassion in James Baldwin’s writing, which helps him face some of the hardest realities of being Black in America’s brutal criminal justice system.

Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates is considered, by some, as James Baldwin’s natural heir, filling the intellectual void after Baldwin’s death in 1987.

Harlem-born writer James Baldwin would have been 100 years old in 2024. A new podcast explores how his novels, essays and ideas remain both inspiring and eerily resonant today.

A BBC Investigation has uncovered evidence that criminal gangs have been cashing in on the Haiti earthquake by asking people to donate to bogus charities. The charity asks for donations to pay for relief supplies using untraceable bank transfers.