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The Sunday Times

1970s

Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone listen among recommended paperbacks. Includes a short favourable comment: ‘Long, but worth staying with’ (1 Mar 1970)

Baldwin referenced in an interview with Arthur Ashe, Black American tennis star (21 Jun 1970)

Baldwin referenced in a review of Robert Deane Pharr’s The Book of Numbers (30 Aug 1970)

A short profile of Baldwin, as well as a report on his upcoming book, Race Rap, written with anthropologist Margaret Mead (15 Nov 1970)

Report on an upcoming rally to be held at Central Hall, Westminster, in support of George Jackson and Angela Davis, and which Baldwin is set to attend (11 Apr 1971)

Michael Joseph display ad for Baldwin and Margaret Mead’s A Rap on Race (18 Jul 1971)

Frederic Raphael reviews A Rap on Race, Baldwin’s collaboration with Margaret Mead (18 Jul 1971)

A Rap on Race listen among highly recommended titles (5 Dec 1971)

Baldwin referenced in a review of Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner (2 Jan 1972)

TV listing for Line-up The Year, featuring Baldwin among others (2 Jan 1972)

A short review of The Hidden God (BBC1), in which Baldwin’s text was read out by a white actor (12 Mar 1972)

Frederic Raphael reviews No Name in the Street (16 Apr 1972)

Michael Joseph display ad for No Name in the Street (Sunday Times) (16 Apr 1972)

Preview of Something to Say, White Man’s Burden?, with Baldwin and Peregrine Worsthorne debating (16 Apr 1972)

A review of Baldwin’s televised debate with Peregrine Worsthorne (23 Apr 1972)

Baldwin quoted in a profile of actor Calvin Lockhart (23 Jul 1972)

Baldwin referenced in a review of David Leitch’s God Stand Up for Bastards (25 Feb 1973)

A Baldwin short story contribution is mentioned in a review of Woodie King’s Black Short Story Anthology (1 Apr 1973)

No Name in the Street listed among recommended paperbacks (1 Jul 1973)

Godfrey Smith reviews If Beale Street Could Talk (16 Jun 1974)

Brian Davis reviews The Devil Finds Work (26 Sep 1976)

Report of Baldwin co-authoring an open letter decrying a recent play about the singer Paul Robeson as a “pernicious perversion” of reality (22 Jan 1978)

Baldwin mentioned in an interview with film-maker Horace Ove (17 Sep 1978)

Peter Ackroyd review of Just Above My Head (18 Nov 1979)