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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Clive Chijioke Nwonka

How the great US writer James Baldwin still influences Londoners today... from Little Simz to Ian Wright

On February 18th, 1965, in a packed Cambridge Union, two of America’s most influential public intellectuals debated the subject The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro.

On one side was William F Buckley, a fierce opponent of civil rights legislation, pro segregationist, and a leading conservative icon. On the other was James Baldwin, the Black writer and a leading voice of the civil rights movement.

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