Arts & Letters

Striking a Match to America


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Imagine what James Baldwin might say if he were alive today. On this episode of Arts & Letters, we’ll be talking with writer Vincent Tolliver about his one-man play, James Baldwin: Striking a Match to America, An Address at Columbia University , which has been performed in Los Angeles and Atlanta. The play imagines James Baldwin alive today talking to the American people about writing, race, and reparations. An excerpt from the play: It is evening and Mr. James Baldwin walks on stage of an
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Arts & LettersBy J. Bradley Minnick

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